内容提要: |
Unknown quantities traditionally share little common ground in control and communication areas. Often times, unknown quantities in communication community are generally modeled as stochastic noise for the convenience of leveraging the well defined concepts such as entropy, Shannon information, Markovness, independence within probability space, while control community often operates in safety where the performance index should be guaranteed at each instance so that the unknown quantities are usually tacked by some bounded unknowns. Cyberphysical systems (CPSs) tightly involve control, communication and computing which urge forces us to cross the sophisticated scenarios where both uncertain variable and processing noise could coexist. Part I of this paper focuses on the issue of whether or not the state of an underlying plant could be exponentially observed or estimated when subjected to unknowns and noise. It turns out to compute the maximum capacity by introducing the notion of memoryless multiple quasi-access channel (M-MQAC). It shows that the maximum capacity is the convex combination of the underlying Shannon capacity C and its sibling the zero-zero capacity C0. Specially, the cases that the plant either subjects multiple uncertainties or noise are also discussed. Clearly, the later is the usual multiple access channel within information theory. |