ON THE NATURE OF THE TIME-VARIANT COMMUNICATION DELAYS

This paper establishes two major classes of system theoretic models that allow descriptions of interconnections of discrete time systems over communications channels with time-variant delays. Unlike previous followed approaches, the introduced models allows to separate the time-variant delay from the system interface. Applications of these models include teleoperation systems, congestion control in data networks, integrated communications and control systems, etc.

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