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Frontiers of Electrical and Electronic Engineering

ISSN 2095-2732

ISSN 2095-2740(Online)

CN 10-1028/TM

Front Elect Electr Eng Chin    2011, Vol. 6 Issue (3) : 453-467    https://doi.org/10.1007/s11460-011-0166-7
RESEARCH ARTICLE
Perturbation analysis of stochastic hybrid systems and applications to resource contention games
Chen YAO, Christos G. CASSANDRAS()
Division of Systems Engineering and Center for Information and Systems Engineering, Boston University, Brookline, MA 02446, USA
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Abstract

We provide an overview of the recently developed general infinitesimal perturbation analysis (IPA) framework for stochastic hybrid systems (SHSs), and establish some conditions under which this framework can be used to obtain unbiased performance gradient estimates in a particularly simple and efficient manner. We also propose a general scheme for systematically deriving an abstraction of a discrete event system (DES) in the form of an SHS. Then, as an application of the general IPA framework, we study a class of stochastic non-cooperative games termed “resource contention games” modeled through stochastic flow models (SFMs), where two or more players (users) compete for the use of a sharable resource. Simulation results are provided for a simple version of such games to illustrate and contrast system-centric and user-centric optimization.

Keywords stochastic flow model (SFM)      perturbation analysis      stochastic hybrid system (SHS)      resource contention games      cyber-physical systems     
Corresponding Author(s): CASSANDRAS Christos G.,Email:cgc@bu.edu   
Issue Date: 05 September 2011
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Chen YAO,Christos G. CASSANDRAS. Perturbation analysis of stochastic hybrid systems and applications to resource contention games[J]. Front Elect Electr Eng Chin, 2011, 6(3): 453-467.
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