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2004 Publications

Published

Ph.D. Theses

• Urtzi Ayesta
  "Stochastic Scheduling and its Application to TCP/IP Networks"(pdf)
  Université de Nice-Sophia Antipolis, December 2004.

Papers in journals (non-exhaustive list; for an exhaustive list click here)

• Chadi Barakat and Eitan Altman
  "A Markovian model for TCP analysis in a differentiated services network" (pdf)
  Telecommunication Systems, Vol. 25 No. 1,2, pp 129--155, 2004.
• Charles Figuières, Alain Jean-Marie and Mabel Tidball
  "On the effects of conjectures in a strategic setting" (get it!)
  Ricerche Economiche, 58, 75--102, January 2004
• Eitan Altman and Laura Wynter
  "Equilibrium, games, and pricing in transportation and telecommunications networks" (ps)
  Special Issue of Networks and Spatial Economics on "Crossovers between Transportation Planning and Telecommunications", Vol 4, Issue 1, p. 7--21, March 2004.
• E. Altman, T. Jimenez, R. Núñez Queija and U. Yechiali
  "Optimal routing among ./M/1 queues with partial information"
  INRIA Research Report RR-4985
  Final version in Stochastic Models, Vol. 20, number 2, pp. 149-172, 2004.
• Ger Koole and Philippe Nain
  "An Explicit Solution for the Value Function of a Priority Queue" (pdf)
  QUESTA, 47 (3): 251-282, July 2004.
• Eitan Altman, Rachid El Azouzi and Tania Jimenez
  "Slotted Aloha as a stochastic game with partial information"(ps)
  Proceedings of WiOpt'03, Sophia Antipolis, France, March 2003.
  A full version (pdf) is available at COMNET, Volume 45, Issue 6, pp. 701-713, 2004.
• E. Altman, K. E. Avrachenkov and R. Núñez Queija
  "Perturbation analysis for denumerable Markov chains with application to queueing models" (pdf)
  Advances in Applied Probability, Vol 36, Number 3, pp. 839-853, 2004.
• Nicolas Galtier and Alain Jean-Marie
  "Markov-modulated Markov chains and the covarion process of molecular evolution" (Abstract)
  Journal of Computational Biology, vol. 11, no. 4, pp. 723--733, August 2004.

Papers in refereed conferences (non-exhaustive list; for an exhaustive list click here)

• Dhiman Barman, Ibrahim Matta, Eitan Altman and Rachid El Azouzi
  "TCP Optimization through FEC, ARQ and Transmission Power Tradeoffs" (pdf)
  Proceedings 2nd international Conference on Wired/Wireless Internet Communications WWIC 2004, Frankfurt (Oder), Germany, February 05-07 2004.
• Eitan Altman, Chadi Barakat and Victor M. Ramos R.
  "Analysis of AIMD protocols over paths with variable delay"
  Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM 2004 Hong-Kong, March 7-11 2004.
• Eitan Altman, Tania Jimenez and Daniel Kofman
  "DPS queues with stationary ergodic service times and the performance of TCP in overload" (ps)
  Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM 2004 Hong-Kong, March 7-11 2004.
• Konstantin Avrachenkov, Urtzi Ayesta, Patrick Brown and Eeva Nyberg
  "Differentiation between Short and Long TCP flows: Predictability of the Response Time"
  Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM 2004 Hong-Kong, March 7-11 2004.
• Florence Clévenot and Philippe Nain
  "A Simple Model for the Analysis of the Squirrel Peer-to-peer Caching System" (pdf)
  INRIA Research Report RR-4911.
  Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM 2004, Hong Kong, March 7-11 2004.
• Robin Groenevelt, Eitan Altman, Philippe Nain
  "Relaying in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks" (pdf)
  Proceedings of Workshop on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc and Wireless Networks (WiOPT 2004), March 24-26 2004, Cambridge, UK.
• Daniele Miorandi and Eitan Altman
  "Connectivity in Ad-Hoc Networks: a Queueing Theoretical Approach" (pdf),
  Proceedings of Workshop on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc and Wireless Networks (WiOPT 2004), March 24-26 2004, Cambridge, UK
• Sorav Bansal, Rajeev Shorey and Arzad A. Kherani
  ``Performance of TCP and UDP Protocols in Multi-Hop Multi-Rate Wireless Networks",
  Proceedings of IEEE WCNC 2004, Atlanta, USA, March 21-25 2004.
• Arzad A. Kherani and Rajeev Shorey
  ``Throughput Analysis of TCP in Multi-Hop Wireless Networks with IEEE 802.11 MAC"
  Proceedings of IEEE WCNC 2004, Atlanta, USA, March 21-25 2004.
• Arzad A. Kherani and Rajeev Shorey
  ``Performance Improvement of TCP with Delayed ACKs in IEEE 802.11 Wireless LANs"
  Proceedings of IEEE WCNC 2004, Atlanta, USA, March 21-25 2004.
• Eitan Altman and Tania Jimenez
  "Simulation Analysis of RED with Short Lived TCP Connections" (pdf)
  Computer Networks, Vol. 44 Issue 5, Pages 631-641, April 2004.
  A shorter version has appeared in the proceedings of ITC 18, Berlin, Sept 2003.
• Samuli Aalto, Urtzi Ayesta, Eeva Nyberg
  "Two-Level Processor Sharing Scheduling Disciplines: Mean Delay Analysis"
  Proceedings of ACM Sigmetrics 2004, New-York, June 12-16 2004.
• Eitan Altman, Dhiman Barman, Rachid El Azouzi and Tania Jimenez
  "A game theoretic approach for delay minimization in slotted Aloha" (pdf)
  Proceedings of IEEE ICC, Paris, 20-24 June, 2004.
• Eitan Altman, Konstantin Avratchenkov, Chadi Barakat, Arzad A. Kherani and Balakrishna J. Prabhu
  "Analysis of scalable TCP" (pdf)
  Proceedings of 7th IEEE International Conference on High Speed Networks and Multimedia Communications (HSNMC'04), June 30 - July 2, 2004 Toulouse, France.
• R. Marquez, E. Altman and S. Sole Alvarez
  "Modeling TCP and High Speed TCP: A nonlinear extension to AIMD mechanisms" (pdf)
  Proceedings of 7th IEEE International Conference on High Speed Networks and Multimedia Communications (HSNMC'04), June 30 - July 2, 2004 Toulouse, France.
• Sara Alouf, Eitan Altman, Chadi Barakat and Philippe Nain
  "On the dynamic estimation of multicast group sizes" (pdf)
  Invited paper at MTNS 2004 Conference, Leuven, Belgium, July 2004.
• Ralph El-Khoury and Eitan Altman
  "Analysis of Scalable TCP" (ps)
  HET-NETs'04 International working conference on Performance Modelling and Evaluation of Heterogeneous Networks , West Yorkshire, U.K., July 2004.
• Eitan Altman, Konstantin Avratchenkov and Balakrishna J. Prabhu
  "A singular perturbation approach to analysing a RED queue" (ps)
  HET-NETs'04 International working conference on Performance Modelling and Evaluation of Heterogeneous Networks ,West Yorkshire, U.K., July 2004
• D. Miorandi, A. Kherani and E. Altman
  "A Queueing Model for HTTP Traffic over IEEE 802.11 WLANs" (pdf)
  Proc. of ITC Specialist Seminar on Performance Evaluation of Wireless and MobileSystems, Antwerp, Belgium, August 31 - September 02, 2004.
• E. Altman, V. S. Borkar and A. Kherani
  ``Optimal Random Access in Networks with Two-Way Traffic" (pdf)
  Proc. of the 15th IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications IEEE PIMRC04, Barcelona, Spain, September 5-8 2004, Vol.1, pp. 609- 613.
• Jean Marc Kelif and Eitan Altman
  "Admission and GoS control in multiservice WCDMA system"(pdf)
  ECUMN'2004, Porto, Portugal, 25-27 October 2004.

Books

• E. Altman, R. Mazumdar and P. Nain, Guest Editors.
  "Selected Papers from the First Workshop on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc and Wireless Networks (WiOpt'03)"
  Performance Evaluation, Vol. 57, Issue 4, August 2004.
• Eitan Altman, Bruno Gaujal and Arie Hordijk
  "Discrete-event control of stochastic networks: Multimodularity and Regularity" (Copyrights: Springer Verlag)
  Springer Verlag, Series: Lecture Notes in Mathematics 2003, XIV, 313 p., Softcover ISBN: 3-540-20358-3.
• Charles Figuières, Alain Jean-Marie, Nicolas Querou and Mabel Tidball
  "Theory of Conjectural Variations"
  World Scientific Publishing, February 2004
  

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