Publications

Book

G. E. Dullerud and F. Paganini, A Course in Robust Control Theory: A Convex Approach,
Texts in Applied Mathematics 36, Springer-Verlag, New York 2000.

PhD Thesis

``Sets and Constraints in the Analysis of Uncertain Systems'', California Institute of Technology, 1996. Awards

Journals and Book Chapters

  1. Paganini and E. Mallada, “A unified approach to congestion control and node-based multipath routing", to appear in   IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Oct 2009.
  2. Li Li and F. Paganini, "LMI relaxation to Riccati equations in structured H2 control", International Journal of Control, Vol 80, No. 4, pp. 527-539, Apr 2007.
  3. A. Fattahi, F. Fu, M. van der Schaar, F. Paganini, ``Mechanism-Based Resource Allocation for Multimedia Transmission over Spectrum Agile Wireless Networks", IEEE Journal on Special Areas in Communications, Vol. 25, No 3, pp. 601-612, Apr. 2007.
  4. Z. Wang, F. Paganini, "Boundedness and Global Stability of a Nonlinear Congestion Control with Delays", IEEE Trans. on Automatic Control, Vol. 51, No. 9, pp. 1514-1519, Sep 2006.
  5. J. Chen, F. Paganini, R. Wang, M.Y.Sanadidi, M. Gerla, "Fluid-flow Analysis of TCP Westwood with RED," Computer Networks, Vol 50, Issue 9, 20 June 2006, pp- 1302-1326.
  6. F. Paganini, Z. Wang, J. Doyle and S. Low, "Congestion control for high performance, stability and fairness in general networks", IEEE Transactions on Networking, Vol 13, No 1., Feb 2005.
  7. J.C. Doyle; S.H. Low; F. Paganini; G. Vinnicombe; W. Willinger; P. Parrilo, "Robustness and the Internet: Theoretical foundations." In: Erica Jen (Ed.). Robust Design: a Repertoire of Biological, Ecological and Engineering Case Studies. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2005, p. 273-286.
  8. C. Jin, D. Wei, S. Low, J. Bunn, D. Choe, J. Doyle, H. Newman, S. Ravot, S. Singh, F. Paganini, G. Buhrmaster, L. Cottrell, O. Martin, W. Feng, "FAST TCP: From Theory to Experiments", IEEE Network, Vol 19., No. 1, 2005.
  9. Li Li and F. Paganini, ``Structured Coprime Factor Model Reduction based on LMIs", Automatica, Vol.41, pp-145-151, Jan. 2005.
  10. Z. Wang, F. Paganini, "Global Stability of Nonlinear Congestion Control with Time-Delay", in "Advances in Communication Control Networks'', Eds. S. Tarbouriech, C.T. Abdallah, J. Chiasson, Lect. Notes in Cont. & Inf. Sci. Springer-Verlag, 2004.
  11. S. H. Low, F. Paganini, J. Wang, J. C. Doyle, ``Linear Stability of TCP/RED and a Scalable Control,'' Computer Networks 43 (2003), pp. 633-647.
  12. F. Paganini, J. Doyle, and S. Low, "A Control Theoretical Look at Internet Congestion Control", in Multidisciplinary Research in Control: The Mohammed Dahleh Symposium 2002. , Eds. L. Giarre' and B. Bamieh, Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences , N. 289, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 2003,
  13. B. Bamieh, F. Paganini, M. Dahleh ``Distributed Control of Spatially Invariant Systems'' IEEE Trans. Autom. Control, Vol 47, No. 7, pp. 1091-1107, July 2002. George S. Axelby Award
  14. F. Paganini, ``A Global Stability Result in Network Flow Control'', Systems & Control Letters 46 (3) (2002) pp. 153-163
  15. G. Ayres, F. Paganini ``Convex Synthesis of Localized Controllers for Spatially Invariant Systems'', Automatica, vol.38, (no.3), March 2002. p.445-56.
  16. S. Low, F. Paganini, J. Doyle, "Internet Congestion Control", IEEE Control Systems Magazine, February 2002.
  17. B. Bamieh, F. Paganini, M.A.Dahleh, "Optimal Control of Distributed Arrays with Spatial Invariance" in Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences vol 245, A. Garulli, A. Tesi, and A. Vicino Eds, Springer-Verlag, 1999.
  18. F. Paganini and E. Feron, "LMI Methods for Robust H2 Analysis: a Survey with Comparisons", in Recent Advances on LMI Methods in Control SIAM, L. El Ghaoui, S. Niculescu, eds, 1999.
  19. A Giusto, F. Paganini, ``Robust Synthesis of Feedforward Compensators'' IEEE Trans. Autom. Control., vol 44, No 8, pp. 1578-1581, 1999.
  20. F. Paganini, B. Lesieutre ``Generic Properties, One-Parameter Deformations and the BCU Method'' IEEE Trans. on Circuits & Systems--I: Fundamental Theory and Applications , vol 46, No. 6, pp. 760-763, 1999.
  21. Paganini F., ``Convex Methods for Robust H2 Analysis of Continuous Time Systems'', IEEE Trans. Autom. Control, Vol 44, No 2, pp. 239-252, February 1999.
  22. Paganini F., ``Frequency Domain Conditions for Robust H2 Performance'', IEEE Trans. Autom. Control, Vol 44, No 1, pp. 38-49, January 1999.
  23. Paganini F., ``A Set-Based Approach for White NoiseModeling'', IEEE Trans. Autom. Control, Vol 41, No 10., pp. 1453-1465, October 1996.
  24. Paganini F., ``Robust Stability Under Mixed Time Varying, Time Invariant and Parametric Uncertainty'', Automatica, Vol. 32, 10, pp. 1381-1392, October 1996.

Conference papers

  1. D. Feijer, F. Paganini, “Krasovskii's Method in the Stability of Network Control”, American Control Conference, St. Loius, MI, June 2009.
  2. P. Belzarena, A. Ferragut, F. Paganini, “Network bandwidth allocation via distributed auctions with time reservations”, IEEE Infocom Miniconference, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, April 2009.
  3. E. Mallada, F. Paganini, “Stability of node-based multipath routing and dual congestion control", IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Cancun, Mexico, Dec. 2008.
  4. P. Belzarena, A.Ferragut, F. Paganini, “Auctions for resource allocation in overlay networks", NET-COOP '08, 2nd Workshop on Network Control and Optimization, Paris, France, September 2008.
  5. A.Ferragut, F. Paganini, “Fluid limit analysis of a utility-based flow admission control policy", Stochastic Networks Conference, Paris, France, June 2008.
  6. M. López, F. Paganini, “A mechanism for the moderation of non-cooperative nodes in wireless local area networks" Jornadas de Sistemas de Telecomunicaiones, Quito, Ecuador, May 2008.
  7. A.Ferragut, F. Paganini, “Achieving network stability and user fairness through admission control of TCP connections”, Conf. on Information Sciences and Systems, Princeton, NJ, March 2008
  8. F. Paganini, "Control and economics in networking, via optimization: perspectives from an emerging discipline", European Control Conference, Kos, Greece, July 2007.
  9. E. Mallada, F. Paganini, "Optimal congestion control with multipath routing using TCP-FAST and a variant of RIP", NET-COOP 2007, Avignon, Francia, Jun 2007. Also in Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4465, Springer-Verlag, Berlin-Heidelberg 2007.
  10. F. Paganini, E. Mallada "Congestion pricing for flow control and multipath routing in TCP/IP networks", Congreso Latinoamericano de Investigacion Operativa, Montevideo, Uruguay, Nov 2006.
  11. P. Monzon, F. Paganini, "Global properties of symmetric coupled oscillators with non complete associated interconnection graph", Congresso Brasileiro de Automatica, Salvador, Brasil, Oct. 2006
  12. L. Li, F. Paganini, "LMI relaxation to Riccati equations in structured H2-control", American Control Conference, Minneapolis, MN, June 2006.
  13. F. Paganini, "Congestion control with adaptive multipath routing based on optimization", Conf. on Information Sciences and Systems, Princeton, NJ, Mar 2006.
  14. P. Monzon, F. Paganini, "Global considerations on the Kuramoto model of sinusoidally coupled oscillators", Proceedings IEEE Conference on Decision and Control Sevilla, España, Dec. 2005.
  15. A. Fattahi, F.Paganini, "New economic perspectives for resource allocation in wireless networks", American Control Conference, Portland, Oregon, Jun 2005.
  16. Z. Wang, F. Paganini, " Improved results on global stability of network congestion control based on iterative bounding", Proceedings IEEE Conference on Decision and Control , Paradise Isl, Bahamas, Dec. 2004.
  17. F. Paganini, "Global stability of a dual congestion control under time-varying queueing delays" Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems, Leuven, Bélgica, July 2004.
  18. G. Ayres, F. Paganini, "Convex synthesis of controllers for consensus", American Control Conference, Boston, MA, June 2004.
  19. Z. Wang, F. Paganini, "Global Stability with time-delay of a primal-dual congestion control", IEEE Conference on Decision and Control , Maui, HI, Dec 2003.
  20. L. Li, F. Paganini, "Structured frequency weighted model reduction", IEEE Conference on Decision and Control , Maui, HI, Dec 2003.
  21. J. Chen, F. Paganini, R. Wang, M.Y.Sanadidi, M. Gerla, "Fluid-flow Analysis of TCP Westwood with RED,"IEEE GLOBECOM, San Francisco, CA, Dec 2003.
  22. S. Gunturi, F. Paganini, "Game theoretic approach to power control in cellular CDMA," IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference, Orlando, Oct 2003.
  23. G. Ayres, F. Paganini, "A method for decentralized control design in spatially invariant systems," Proceedings 2003 American Control Conference , Denver, CO.
  24. F. Paganini, Z. Wang, S. Low, and J.Doyle, "A new TCP/AQM for Stable Operation in Fast Networks"
    Proceedings 2003 IEEE Infocom, San Francisco, CA.
  25. C. Jin, D. Wei, S. Low, G. Buhrmaster, J. Bunn, D. Choe, L. Cottrell, J. Doyle, H. Newman, F. Paganini, S. Ravot, S. Singh, "FAST Kernel: Background theory and experimental results", PFLDNet workshop, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland, Feb 2003.
  26. Z. Wang, F. Paganini, "Global Stability with Time Delay in Network Congestion Control", Proceedings 2002 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control .
  27. G. Ayres, F. Paganini, "An IQC characterization of decentralized Lyapunov functions in spatially invariant systems," Proceedings 2002 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control .
  28. F. Paganini, Z. Wang, S. Low, and J.Doyle, "A New TCP/AQM for stability and performance in Fast networks", Proceedings of the 2002 Allerton Conference.
  29. S. H. Low, F. Paganini, J. Wang, S. Adlakha, J. C. Doyle, ``Dynamics of TCP/RED and a Scalable Control,'' Proceedings 2002 IEEE Infocom, New York, June 2002.
  30. Li Li and F. Paganini, "LMI Approach to Structured Model Reduction via Coprime Factorizations", Proceedings 2002 American Control Conference , Anchorage, AK, May 2002, pp. 1174-79.
  31. F. Paganini, J. Doyle, S. Low, ``Scalable Laws for Stable Network Congestion Control,'' Proceedings of the 2001 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control , Orlando, FL.
  32. K. Shoarinejad, J. Speyer, F. Paganini, G. Pottie, "Global stability of feedback power control algorithms for cellular radio systems", Proceedings of the 2001 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control , Orlando, FL.
  33. S. H. Low, F. Paganini, J. Wang, S. Adlakha, J. C. Doyle, "Linear Stability of TCP/RED and a Scalable Control", Proceedings of the Allerton Conference, Monticello, IL, Oct. 2001.
  34. Paganini F., On the stability of optimization-based flow control, Proceedings of the 2001 American Control Conference .
  35. Ayres De Castro, G., Paganini F., ``Convex method for decentralized control design in spatially invariant systems '', Proceedings of the 2000 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control , Sydney, Australia.
  36. F. Paganini, Flow Control via Pricing: a Feedback Perspective. Proceedings of the Allerton Conference, Monticello, IL, Oct. 2000.
  37. Ayres De Castro, G., Paganini F., ``Control of distributed arrays with recursive information flow: some case studies'', Proceedings of the 1999 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control
  38. F. Paganini, ``A Recursive Information Flow System for Distributed Control Arrays,'' Proceedings of the 1999 American Control Conference , San Diego, CA.
  39. P. Parrilo P., S. Lall, F. Paganini, G. Verghese, B. Lesieutre, J. Marsden, ``Model reduction for analysis of cascading failures in power systems'', Proceedings of the 1999 American Control Conference , San Diego, CA.
  40. F. Paganini, B. Bamieh, ``Decentralization Properties of Optimal Distributed Controllers'' Proceedings 1998 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control . pp. 1877-1882.
  41. Bamieh B., Paganini F., Dahleh M.A., ``Optimal Control of Distributed Actuator and Sensor Arrays'', Proceedings SPIE Conf. on Smart Structures and Materials, March 1998.
  42. F. Paganini, E. Feron, ``Analysis of Robust H2 Performance: Comparisons and Examples'', Proceedings 1997 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control , San Diego, CA, pp. 1000-1005.
  43. Rank M., Paganini F., ``Robust H2 Performance for Sampled-Data Systems'', Proceedings 1997 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control , San Diego, CA, pp. 1006-1007.
  44. Paganini F., Giusto A., ``Robust Synthesis of Dynamic Prefilters'', Proceedings 1997 American Control Conference , Albuquerque, NM. pp. 1314-1318.
  45. Paganini F. , `` State-Space Conditions for Robust H2 Analysis'', Proceedings 1997 American Control Conference , Albuquerque, NM, pp. 1230-1234.
  46. Doyle J., Paganini F., D'Andrea R., Khatri S., ``Approximate Behaviors'', Proceedings 1996 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control , Kobe, Japan.
  47. Beck, C., D'Andrea R., Paganini F., Lu W.M., Doyle J. ``A state-space theory of uncertain systems'', Proceedings 13th IFAC World Congress, San Francisco, CA.
  48. Paganini F., ``Necessary and Sufficient Conditions for Robust H2 Performance'', Proceedings 1995 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control , New Orleans, LA., pp. 1970-1975.
  49. Paganini F., ``Analysis of Systems with Combined Time Invariant/Time Varying Structured Uncertainty'', Proceedings 1995 American Control Conference , Seattle, WA., pp. 3878-3882.
  50. Paganini F., Doyle J., ``Analysis of Implicitly Defined Systems'' Proceedings 1994 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control , Orlando, FL., pp. 3673-3678
  51. D'Andrea R., Paganini F., ``Controller Synthesis for Implicitly Defined Uncertain Systems'' Proceedings 1994 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control , Orlando, FL., 3679-3684.
  52. Doyle J., Newlin M., Paganini F., Tierno J., `` Unifying Robustness Analysis and System ID'', Proceedings 1994 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control , Orlando, FL., pp. 3667-3672.
  53. Paganini F., D'Andrea R., and Doyle J., ``Behavioral Approach to Robustness Analysis'' Proceedings 1994 American Control Conference , Baltimore, MD., pp. 2782-2786. 1994 O. Hugo Schuck Award .
  54. D'Andrea R., Paganini F., ``Interconnection of Uncertain Behavioral Systems for Robust Control'', Proceedings 1993 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control , San Antonio, Texas, pp. 3642-3647.
  55. D'Andrea R., Paganini F., Doyle J.C., ``Uncertain Behavior'' Proceedings 1993 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control , San Antonio, Texas, pp. 3891-3896.
  56. Paganini F., ``Set Descriptions of White Noise and Worst Case Induced Norms'', Proceedings 1993 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control , San Antonio, Texas, pp. 3658-3663.