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2007 Publications

[Ph.D. Theses] [Papers in Journals] [Papers in refereed conferences] [Book Chapters] [To Appear]

Published

Ph.D. Theses

  • N. Bonneau
    "Centralized and Decentralized Multiuser Schemes for Wireless Communications" ,[pdf], Telecom Paris, September 24th 2007. Slides [pdf].

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

  • S. Shakkottai E. Altman, A. Kumar,
    "Multihoming of Users to Access Points in WLANs: A Population Game Perspective"
    IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communication, Special Issue on Non-Cooperative Behavior in Networking Vol 25 No 6, 1207-1215, Aug 2007, [pdf].
  • Frédéric Hamelin, Pierre Bernhard, Philippe Nain and Eric Wajnberg
    "Foreaging under competition: evolutionarily stable patch-leaving strategies with random arrival times. 1. Scramble competition" (pdf)
    Annals of Dynamic Games, February 2007.
  • J. Marc Kelif and E. Altman and I. Koukoutsidis
    "Admission and GoS control in a multiservice WCDMA system"
    Computer Networks, Volume 51, Issue 3, 21, pp. 699-711, February 2007.
  • K. Avrachenkov and N. Litvak and D. Nemirovsky and N. Osipova
    "Monte Carlo methods in PageRank computation: When one iteration is sufficient"
    SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis, Volume 45, Issue 2, pp. 890-904, May 2007.
  • A. Kumar and E. Altman and D. Miorandi and M. Goyal
    "New Insights From a Fixed-Point Analysis of Single Cell IEEE 802.11 WLANs"
    IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Volume 15, Issue 3, pp. 588-601, June 2007.
  • S. Shakkottai, E. Altman and A. Kumar
    "Multihoming of Users to Access Points in WLANs: A Population Game Perspective"
    IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communication, Special Issue on Non-Cooperative Behavior in Networking , August 2007.
  • Abdullah Balamash, Marwan M. Krunz and Philippe Nain
    "Performance Analysis of a Client-Side Caching/Prefetching System for Web Traffic" (pdf)
    Computer Networks (COMNET), September 2007.
  • Daniele Miorandi, Eitan Altman and Giuseppa Alfano
    "The Impact of Channel Randomness on Coverage and Connectivity of Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks"
    IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, 2007.
  • M. Ibrahim A. Al-Hanbali, and P. Nain
    "Delay and Resource Analysis in MANETs in Presence of Throwboxes"
    Performance Evaluation, Vol. 64, Issues 9-12, P. 933-947, October 2007.
  • Alain Jean-Marie, Mabel Tidball and Nicolas Marchetti
    "Low-bid auctions versus high-bid auctions for siting noxious facilities in a two-city region: an exact approach"
    Annales de estudios economicos y empresariales, Vol. XVII, 2007, 43-57

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

  • E. Altman , A. Silva , P. Bernhard , M. Debbah,
    "Continuum Equilibria for Routing in Dense Ad-hoc Networks" [pdf] [bib]
    Proc. of Forty-Fifth Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing,
    Illinois, United States, September 26-28, 2007.
  • K. Avrachenkov, P. Brown, N. Osipova,
    "Optimal Choice of Threshold in Two Level Processor Sharing" [pdf],
    Accepted to Annals of Operations Research journal 2007.
  • G. Neglia and G. Reina,
    "Evaluating Activator-Inhibitor Mechanisms for Sensors Coordination" [pdf],[bibtex]
    Proc. of the 2nd International Conference on Bio-Inspired Models of Network, Information, and Computing Systems (BIONETICS), Budapest, Hungary, December 10-13, 2007.
  • E. Altman, A. Silva, P. Bernhard, and M. Debbah
    "Continuum Equilibria for Routing in Dense Ad-hoc Networks" (pdf)
    Proc. of Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, Illinois, United States, September 26-28, 2007.
  • N. Bonneau, M. Debbah, E. Altman and A. Hjørungnes
    "Wardrop Equilibrium for CDMA Systems"
    Proc. of Rawnet 2007, Limassol, Cyprus, April 16, 2007.
  • S. Yousefi, E. Altman and R. El-Azouzi
    "Study of connectivity in vehicular ad hoc networks"
    Proc. of Workshop on Spatial Stochastic Models in Wireless Networks (SpaSWiN), Limassol, Cyprus, April 16, 2007.
  • E. Altman and Y. Hayel and H. Kameda
    "Evolutionary dynamics and potential games in non-cooperative routing"
    Proc. of Workshop on Wireless Networks: Communication, Cooperation and Competition (WNC3 2007) , Limassol, Cyprus, April 16, 2007.
  • V. Ramaiyan and A. Kumar and E. Altman
    "Jointly Optimal Power Control and Routing for a Single Cell, Dense, Ad hoc Wireless Network"
    Proc. of 5th International Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc, and Wireless Networks (WiOpt 2007), Limassol, Cyprus, April 16-20, 2007.
  • Dinesh Kumar, Eitan Altman and Jean-Marc Kelif
    "User-Network Association in an 802.11 WLAN & 3G UMTS Hybrid Cell: Individual Optimality"
    Proc. of IEEE Sarnoff Symposium, Princeton, USA, 30 April - 2 May, 2007.
  • E. Altman and K. Avrachenkov and G. Miller and B. Prabhu
    "Discrete Power Control: Cooperative and Non-Cooperative Optimization"
    Proc. of IEEE Infocom 2007, Anchorage, Alaska, USA, May 6-12, 2007.
  • A. Al-Hanbali, A. A. Kherani and P. Nain
    "Simple Models for the Performance Evaluation of a Class of Two-Hop Relay Protocols"
    Proc. of IFIP Networking 2007, Atlanta, GA, USA, May 14-18, 2007.
  • G. Neglia, G. Lo Presti, H. Zhang, and D. Towsley
    "A network formation game approach to study BitTorrent Tit-for-Tat" (pdf)
    Proc. of EuroFGI International Conference on Network Control and Optimization, Avignon, France, June 5-7, 2007.
  • Saleh Yousefi, Eitan Altman, Rachid El-Azouzi and Mahmood Fathy
    "Connectivity in vehicular ad hoc networks in presence of wireless mobile base-stations"
    Proc. of the 7th International Conference on TIS Telecommunications , June 6-8, Sophia-Antipolis, France.
  • Dinesh Kumar, Eitan Altman and Jean-Marc Kelif
    "Globally Optimal User-Network Association in an 802.11 WLAN & 3G UMTS Hybrid Cell"
    Proc. of 20th International Teletraffic Congress (ITC-20), Ottawa, Canada, 17-21 June, 2007.
  • S. Alouf, A. Dandoush and P. Nain
    "Performance Analysis of Peer-to-Peer Storage Systems"
    Proc. of 20th International Teletraffic Congress (ITC-20), Ottawa, Canada, 17-21 June, 2007.(pdf)
  • V. Sharma and D. Prasad and E. Altman
    "Opportunistic Scheduling of Wireless Links"
    Proc. of 20th International Teletraffic Congress (ITC 20) , Ottawa, Canada, June 17-21, 2007.
  • M. Ibrahim and A. Al-Hanbali and P. Nain
    "Delay and Resource Analysis in MANETS in Presence of Throwboxes"
    Proc. of Performance 2007, Cologne, Germany, October 2--5, 2007.
  • S. Alouf, I. Carreras, D. Miorandi, and G. Neglia
    "Embedding Evolution in Epidemic-Style Forwarding" (pdf)
    Proc. of Bionetworks 2007, Pisa, Italy, October 8, 2007.
  • E. Altman and K. Avrachenkov and C. Barakat and K. Chandrayana
    "Multilevel approach for the modeling of large TCP/IP networks"
    Proc. of Symposium on Recent Advances for Modeling and Simulation Tools for Communications Networks and Services, organized by COST 285, Surrey, UK, 2007.
  • E. Altman and K. Avrachenkov and A. Garnaev
    "A Jamming game in wireless networks with transmission cost"
    Proc. of EuroFGI International Conference on Network Control and Optimization (NET-COOP 2007), Avignon, France, June 5-7, 2007, 2nd Best Paper Award.
  • N. Moller and C. Barakat and K. Avrachenkov and E. Altman
    "Inter-protocol fairness between TCP New Reno and TCP Westwood+"
    Proc. of 3rd EuroNGI Conference on Next Generation Internet Networks (NGI 2007), Trondheim, Norway, May 21-23, 2007.
  • A. Suarez and M. Debbah and L. Cottatellucci and E. Altman
    "Optimal decoding order under target rate constraints"
    Proc. of 8th IEEE Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC 2007), Helsinki, Finland, June 17-20, 2007.
  • E. Altman and R. El-Azouzi and R. Marquez and D. Ros and B. Tuffin
    "Stackelberg Approach for Pricing Differentiated Services"
    Proc. of 2nd International Conference on Performance Evaluation Methodologies and Tools (ValueTools 2007), Nantes, France, October 23-25, 2007.
  • T. Chahed and E. Altman and S. E. Elayoubi
    "Joint uplink and downlink capacity considerations in admission control in multiservice CDMA/HSDPA systems"
    Proc. of 2nd International Conference on Performance Evaluation Methodologies and Tools (ValueTools 2007), Nantes, France, October 23-25, 2007.
  • T. Hamidou and E. Altman and R. El-Azouzi
    "Asymmetric Delay in Evolutionary Games"
    Proc. of 2nd International Conference on Performance Evaluation Methodologies and Tools (ValueTools 2007), Nantes, France, October 23-25, 2007.
  • E. Altman and K. Avrachenkov and N. Bonneau and M. Debbah, R. El-Azouzi and D. Sadoc Menasche
    "Constrained Stochastic Games in Wireless Networks"
    Proc. of IEEE Globecom 2007,Washington D.C., USA, November 26-30, 2007.
  • T. Hamidou and E. Altman and R. El-Azouzi
    "Delayed Evolutionary Game Dynamics applied to the Medium Access Control"
    Proc. of Workshop on Socially and Biologically Inspired Wired and Wireless Networks (Bionetworks), Pisa, Italy, October 8, 2007.
  • E. Altman and P. Bernhard and M. Debbah and A. Silva
    "Continuum Equilibria for Routing in Dense Ad-Hoc Networks"
    Proc. of 45th Allerton Conference on Communication, Control and Computing, Allerton, IL, USA, September 26-28, 2007.
  • E. Altman and K. Avrachenkov and A. Garnaev
    "Closed form solutions for water-filling problem in optimization and game frameworks"
    Proc. of First International Workshop on Game theory for Communication networks (GameComm), Nantes, France, October 22, 2007.
  • T. Hamidou and E. Altman and R. El-Azouzi and Y. Hayel
    "Multiple Access Game in Ad-hoc Network"
    Proc. of First International Workshop on Game theory for Communication networks (GameComm), Nantes, France, October 22, 2007.
  • E. Altman and S. Sarkar and E. Solan
    "Constrained Single-Controller Stochastic Games"
    Proc. of International Workshop on Tools for solving Structured Markov Chains (SMCtools), Nantes, France, October 26, 2007.
  • K. Avrachenkov and D. Nemirovsky and K.S. Pham
    "A survey on distributed approaches to graph based reputation measures"
    Proc. of International Workshop on Tools for solving Structured Markov Chains (SMCtools), Nantes, France, October 26, 2007.
  • J.-M. Kelif and E. Altman
    "Cellular network with continuum priority set"
    Proc. of 2nd International Conference on Performance Evaluation Methodologies and Tools (ValueTools 2007), Nantes, France, October 23-25, 2007.
  • G. Neglia and G. Lo Presti and H. Zhang and D. Towsley
    "A network formation game approach to study BitTorrent tit-for-tat"
    Proc. of EuroFGI International Conference on Network Control and Optimization (NET-COOP 2007), Avignon, France, June 5-7, 2007.
  • P. Flajolet and E. Fusy and O. Gandouet and F. Meunier
    "HyperLogLog: the Analysis of a near-optimal cardinality estimation algorithm"
    Proc. of 2007 Conference on Analysis of Algorithms (AofA 2007), Juan-les-Pins, France, June 17-22, 2007.
  • N. Osipova
    "Batch Processor Sharing with Hyper-Exponential service time"
    Proc. of 4th EuroFGI workshop on New Trends in Modelling, Quantitative Methods and Measurements, Ghent, Belgium, May 31 - June 1, 2007.
  • K. Avrachenkov and N. Litvak and S.K. Pham
    "Distribution of PageRank Mass Among Principle Components of the Web"
    Proc. of 5th Workshop On Algorithms And Models For The Web-Graph (WAW 2007), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, San Diego, CA, USA, December 11-12, 2007.
  • E. Altman, K. Avrachenkov, N. Bonneau, M. Debbah, R. El-Azouzi and D. Sadoc Menasche,
    "Constrained Cost-Coupled Stochastic Games with Independent State Processes"
    appeared in Operations Research Letters, available on Arxiv (pdf).
  • E. Altman and R. El-Azouzi
    "La theorie des jeux non-cooperatifs appliquee aux reseaux de telecommunication"
    appeared (in French) in Annales des Telecommunications, 2007.
  • E. Altman and D. Fiems
    "Expected waiting time in symmetric polling systems with correlated vacations"
    appeared in Queueing Systems - Theory and Applications , 2007.

Book Chapters

Research Report