“…Recently, increasing attention has been devoted to the problem of delay-dependent stability of linear systems with time-varying delay, including continuous-time and discrete-time systems with timevarying delay, and a great number of delay-dependent stability criteria were derived based on the Lyapunov functional method [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16]. To reduce the conservativeness of the existing results, some 1494 D. YUE, E. TIAN AND Y. ZHANG new analysis methods were proposed, such as descriptor system transformation method [3,4,17], free weighting matrix method [5,8,16], matrix inequality method [9,11,18] and input-output approach [19], some of which were firstly given for continuous-time systems [3, 7-9, 11, 16], and then extended to the discrete-time systems [5,20,21].…”