“…It is now important to explore what is the simplest decentralized control problem that cannot be solved (exactly or approximately) using ideas developed for the counterexample. In this manner, the Witsenhausen counterexample can provide a platform to unify the more modern (i.e., external-channel centric approaches, see Nair (2014), Kawan (2014), Bushnell (2014), Hespanha (2014), andYuksel (2014) in the encyclopedia) with the more classical decentralized LQG problems, leading to enriching and useful formulations.…”