Design and implement of multi-agent communication platform based on network delay prediction

A network delay predictive modeling method based on system identification is proposed to match the latency between two agents of networked control systems(NCSs).With the prediction, historical and estimated data compose a time-related series to describe the future network delays as explicit time-related function. By the proposed model, how to optimize the transmission path among multi-agents is converted to the shortest path of time dependent network (SPTDN) problem. According to the solution of SPTDN, a novel juxtapose(JXTA)-based communication platform is established, by which networked control systems(NCSs) can be arranged on internet scale without considering the specific circumstances of network environment. Finally the experimental implementation demonstrates the feasibility and validity of the proposed method.