Contents I. Introduction
Research on networked systems via shared networks has received considerable attention recently, owing to the drawbacks of traditional point-to-point communication and the rapid development of network technology. Networked systems have the advantages of low cost, reduced weight and power, simple maintenance, and higher reliability [1]. However, once shared networks are used for networked systems, some challenges including communication constraints, quantization error analysis, etc., are unavoidable [2], [3], [4], [5], [6], [7], [8]. In [9], distributed state estimators were designed for a class of filtering networks, where the time-varying switching topologies, partial information exchange between filters, and packet dropouts were considered, simultaneously. In [10], for nonlinear complex dynamical networks, a feedback-type dynamic quantizer was established, and a quantized pinning control scheme was proposed. This article addresses the problem that the network resource is finite, i.e., when the communication channel is allocated before runtime, the network resource tends to be frail and wasteful. Therefore, how to efficiently use the finite network resource motivates our further study.
