“…P OSITIVE systems are dynamic systems whose state variables are constrained to be positive (at least nonnegative) at all times. Such systems abound in various fields, e.g., biomedicine [1], [2], pharmacokinetics [3], ecology [4], chemical engineering [5], industrial engineering [6], economics, and so on. Recently, an interesting application of positive system model to TCP-like Internet congestion control has also appeared [7], [8].…”