Finite-Time Distributed Flow Balancing
2021 (English) In: IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, ISSN 0018-9286, E-ISSN 1558-2523Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
We consider a flow network that is described by a digraph, each edge of which can admit a flow within a certain interval, with nonnegative end points that correspond to lower and upper flow limits. We propose and analyze a distributed iterative algorithm for solving, in {\em finite time}, the so-called feasible circulation problem, which consists of computing flows that are {\em admissible} (i.e., within the given intervals at each edge) and {\em balanced} (i.e., the total in-flow equals the total out-flow at each node). The algorithm assumes a communication topology that allows bidirectional message exchanges between pairs of nodes that are physically connected (i.e., nodes that share a directed edge in the physical topology) and is shown to converge to a feasible and balanced solution as long as the necessary and sufficient circulation conditions are satisfied with strict inequality. In case the initial flows and flow limits are commensurable (i.e., they are integer multiples of a given constant), then the proposed algorithm reduces to a previously proposed finite-time balancing algorithm, for which we provide an explicit bound on the number of steps required for termination.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) , 2021.
Keywords [en]
Balancing, Distributed algorithms, Distributed balancing, Feasible circulation, Finite-time, Flow networks, Indexes, Synchronization, Task analysis, Technological innovation, Topology, Upper bound, Iterative methods, Job analysis, Parallel algorithms, Distributed flow, Flow balancing, Flow network, Index
National Category
Control Engineering
Identifiers URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-316060 DOI: 10.1109/TAC.2021.3137150 ISI: 000895440500055 Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85122055578 OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-316060 DiVA, id: diva2:1691957
Note QC 20230118
2022-08-312022-08-312023-01-18 Bibliographically approved