Input-output stability with input-to-state stable protocols for quantized and networked control systems

This paper introduces the notion of input-to-state stable (ISS) protocols in the context of scheduling and quantization within networked control systems (NCS) and examines conditions under which a class of continuous-time control systems designed ignoring the network achieves input-to-state stability. Verifiable sufficient conditions for robust stability (ISS) are given for a class of nonlinear systems under the constraint of finite data-rate feedback.