Toward a deeper use of feedback control in the design of critical computing system components
(2010) 2010 49th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, CDC 2010 In Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control p.5985-5990- Abstract
Feedback controllers are typically applied to computing systems by acting on some quantities ("tunable parameters" in the computer science lexicon, think e.g. of a packet drop rate) in order to attain some goal (e.g., a required bandwidth allocation). In other words, control loops are closed around the computing system, that exposes tunable parameters as control actuators, and allows to measure some performance metrics. In the authors' opinion, the "classical" use of control methods sketched above heavily limits the achievable results. Indeed, many critical parts of computing systems should not be "controlled", but rather "re-designed in the form of controllers"-quite a novel approach and an interesting research area. This manuscript... (More)
Feedback controllers are typically applied to computing systems by acting on some quantities ("tunable parameters" in the computer science lexicon, think e.g. of a packet drop rate) in order to attain some goal (e.g., a required bandwidth allocation). In other words, control loops are closed around the computing system, that exposes tunable parameters as control actuators, and allows to measure some performance metrics. In the authors' opinion, the "classical" use of control methods sketched above heavily limits the achievable results. Indeed, many critical parts of computing systems should not be "controlled", but rather "re-designed in the form of controllers"-quite a novel approach and an interesting research area. This manuscript formalises the statement above and illustrates some results, including a couple of application examples, to demonstrate the advantages of the proposed design approach.
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- author
- Maggio, Martina LU and Leva, Alberto
- publishing date
- 2010
- type
- Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding
- publication status
- published
- subject
- host publication
- 2010 49th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, CDC 2010
- series title
- Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control
- article number
- 5717760
- pages
- 6 pages
- conference name
- 2010 49th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, CDC 2010
- conference location
- Atlanta, GA, United States
- conference dates
- 2010-12-15 - 2010-12-17
- external identifiers
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- scopus:79953148722
- ISSN
- 0191-2216
- ISBN
- 9781424477456
- DOI
- 10.1109/CDC.2010.5717760
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- no
- additional info
- Copyright: Copyright 2011 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
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- 4d72ec28-f974-4052-9995-5737ba4b2e5b
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abstract = {{<p>Feedback controllers are typically applied to computing systems by acting on some quantities ("tunable parameters" in the computer science lexicon, think e.g. of a packet drop rate) in order to attain some goal (e.g., a required bandwidth allocation). In other words, control loops are closed around the computing system, that exposes tunable parameters as control actuators, and allows to measure some performance metrics. In the authors' opinion, the "classical" use of control methods sketched above heavily limits the achievable results. Indeed, many critical parts of computing systems should not be "controlled", but rather "re-designed in the form of controllers"-quite a novel approach and an interesting research area. This manuscript formalises the statement above and illustrates some results, including a couple of application examples, to demonstrate the advantages of the proposed design approach.</p>}},
author = {{Maggio, Martina and Leva, Alberto}},
booktitle = {{2010 49th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, CDC 2010}},
isbn = {{9781424477456}},
issn = {{0191-2216}},
language = {{eng}},
pages = {{5985--5990}},
series = {{Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control}},
title = {{Toward a deeper use of feedback control in the design of critical computing system components}},
url = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/CDC.2010.5717760}},
doi = {{10.1109/CDC.2010.5717760}},
year = {{2010}},
}