Complexity and robustness

There is Complexity and Robustness in communication networks. Some introductory notes, slides and references are listed below.

This page was copied and reformatted from 2005 <http://www.cds.caltech.edu/~doyle/SFI_robustness/> and still needs to transfer links/files over to this wiki.

Slides

1. Overview of robustness (SFI robustness workshop) (ppt)

2. Design degree of freedom (ppt)

3. NAS symposium on self-organizing systems (ppt)

4. SFI networking workshop (ppt)

Note: there is a large overlap in material in the above slides

Papers

Power Laws, Highly Optimized Tolerance and Generalized Source Coding,
J. Doyle and J.M. Carlson,
Phys. Rev. Let., 84(24):5656-5659, 2000.

Scalable Laws for Stable Network Congestion Control
Fernando Paganini, J. C. Doyle and S. H. Low.
in Proceedings of IEEE CDC, Orlando, FL, Dec 2001 (475k).

Robust perfect adaptation in bacterial chemotaxis through integral feedback control.
Yi T-M, Huang Y, Simon MI, Doyle J.
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 97(9):4649-4653, 2000.

Highly Optimized Tolerance: A Mechanism for Power Laws in Designed Systems,
Carlson and Doyle,
PRE, Abstract (text), Paper (postscript)

Heavy tails, generalized coding, and optimal web layout,
Zhu, Yu, and Doyle,

Infocomm, PS

Draft

Feedback regulation of the heat shock response in E. Coli, Kurata,
El-Samad, Yi, Khammash, and Doyle, draft, (PS (7M) or Zipped (300k))

Theoretical Foundations for Ubiquitous, Networked Control, Communications, and Computing,
working paper, PS

Multiscale networking, robustness, and rigor,
informal essay, HTML

PhD Thesis

Structured semidefinite programs and semialgebraic geometry methods in robustness and optimization,
Pablo Parrilo,
PhD Thesis, year??
Control and Dynamical Systems, Caltech, (Gzipped postscript)

Related reading

For more introductory papers on HOT, see: http://www.physics.ucsb.edu/~carlson

Related topics

Complex networks

General complexity

Recommended books

A course in Robust Control Theory: A Convex Approach, Dullerud and Paganini, Springer

Essentials of Robust Control, Zhou, Prentice-Hall

Cells, Embryos, and Evolution, Gerhart and Kirschner

Old slides 2000?

Some old slides from a physics seminar: Powerpoint slides

Related news and commentary items

Highly Optimized Tolerance
by Phillip F. Schewe and Ben Stein
in American Institute of Physics (AIP) Physics News Update
Number 474 (Story #1), March 10, 2000

Applied mathematics: The power of design
Mark Newman
Nature 405, 6785, pp 412-413 (25 May 2000)

Cell signaling pathways as control modules: Complexity for simplicity?
Douglas A. Lauffenburger,
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sc. May 9, 2000 vol. 97 no. 10 5031-5033

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