This work is concerned with the problem of distributed resource allocation in continuous-time setting but with discrete-time communication over infinitely jointly connected and balanced digraphs. We provide a passivity-based perspective for the continuous-time algorithm, based on which an intermittent communication scheme is developed. Particularly, a periodic communication scheme is first derived through analyzing the passivity degradation over output sampling of the distributed dynamics at each node. Then, an asynchronous distributed event-triggered scheme is further developed. The sampled-based event-triggered communication scheme is exempt from Zeno behavior as the minimum inter-event time is lower bounded by the sampling period. The parameters in the proposed algorithm rely only on local information of each individual nodes, which can be designed in a truly distributed fashion
@article{arxiv.1907.13003,
title = {Distributed Resource Allocation over Time-varying Balanced Digraphs with Discrete-time Communication},
author = {Lanlan Su and Mengmou Li and Vijay Gupta and Graziano Chesi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1907.13003},
year = {2021}
}