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2010 Publications

HDR thesis

• Konstantin Avrachenkov,
  "Stochatic Methods for TCP/IP Networks and the WWW".
  University of Nice Sophia Antipolis, France, April 29, 2010.

PhDthesis

• Abdulhalim Dandoush,
  "Analysis and Optimization of Peer-to-Peer Storage and Backup Systems" [pdf].
  University of Nice Sophia-Antipolis, France, March 29, 2010.
• Alonso Silva,
  "Design and Optimization of Wireless Networks for Large Populations" [pdf].
  Supelec, Gif-sur-Yvette, France. June 7, 2010.
• Danil Nemirovsky,
  "Monte Carlo Methods and Markov Chain Based Approaches for PageRank Computation" [pdf].
  University of Nice Sophia-Antipolis, France, and St Peterburg State University, Russia (thesis in "cotutelle"). July 2, 2010.

Papers in journals (non-exhaustive list; for an exhaustive list click here and go to Section 10)

• Konstantin Avrachenkov and Uri Yechiali,
  "On Tandem Blocking Queues with a Common Retrial Queue".
  Computers and Operations Research, Vol. 37, No.7, pp. 1174-1180, 2010.
  
• Yi Zhang, Alexei Piunovskiy, Urtzi Ayesta and Konstantin Avrachenkov,
  "Convergence of Trajectories and Optimal Buffer Sizing for MIMD Congestion Control".
  Computer Communications, Vol. 33, pp. 149-159, 2010.
  
• Eitan Altman, Konstantin Avrachenkov and Andrei Garnaev,
  "Fair Resource Allocation in Wireless Networks in the Presence of a Jammer".
  Performance Evaluation, Vol. 67, No. 4, pp. 338-349, 2010.
  
• Konstantin Avrachenkov, Vladimir Ejov and Jerzi Filar,
  "Multivariate Polynomial Perturbations of Algebraic Equations".
  Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications, Vol. 369, No. 1, pp. 214-221, 2010.
  

Papers in refereed conferences and workshops (non-exhaustive list; for an exhaustive list click here and go to Section 10)

• Eitan Altman and Veeraruna Kavitha,
  "Opportunistic Scheduling of a Message Ferry in Sensor Networks" [ pdf].
  Proc. of Second International Workshop on Mobile Opportunistic Networking (MobiOpp 2010), February 22-23, 2010, Pisa, Italy.
• Eitan Altman, Francesco De Pellegrini and Lucile Sassatelli,
  "Dynamic control of Coding in Delay Tolerant Networks" [pdf].
  Proc. of 29th IEEE INFOCOM Conference, March 15-19, 2010, San Diego, CA, USA.
• Eitan Altman, Prakash Azad, Tamer Başar and Francesco De Pellegrini,
  "Optimal Activation and Transmission Control in Delay Tolerant Networks" [pdf].
  Proc. of 29th IEEE INFOCOM Conference, March 15-19, 2010, San Diego, CA, USA.
• Veeraruna Kavitha, Eitan Altman, Rachid Elazouzi and Rajesh Sundareshan,
  "Fair Scheduling in Cellular Systems in the Presence of Noncooperative Mobiles" [ pdf].
  Proc. of 29th IEEE INFOCOM Conference, March 15-19, 2010, San Diego, CA, USA.
• Alonso Silva, Eitan Altman, Merouane Dabbah, Guiseppa Alfano,
  "Magnetworks: How Mobility Impacts the Design of Mobile Ad Hoc Networks".
  Proc. of 29th IEEE INFOCOM Conference, March 15-19, 2010, San Diego, CA, USA.
• Jocelyne Elias, Fabio Martignon, Konstantin Avrachenkov and Giovanni Neglia,
  "Socially-Aware Network Design Games" [pdf, bibtex].
  Proc. of 29th IEEE INFOCOM Conference, Mini Conference, March 15-19, 2010, San Diego, CA, USA.
• Mohammad Hossein, Rezaei Khouzani, Saswati Sarkar and Eitan Altman,
  "Maximum Damage Malware Attack in Mobile Wireless Networks" [pdf].
  Proc. of 29th IEEE INFOCOM Conference, March 15-19, 2010, San Diego, CA, USA.
Vijay Kamble, Eitan Altman, Rachid El-Azouzi and Vinod Sharma,
"A Theoretical Framework for Hierarchical Routing Games" [ pdf].
Proc. of 29th IEEE INFOCOM Conference, March 15-19, 2010, San Diego, CA, USA.
• Damiano Carra, Konstantin Avrachenkov, Sara Alouf, Alberto Blanc, Philippe Nain, and Georg Post,
  "Passive Online RTT Estimation for Flow-Aware Routers using One-Way Traffic" [pdf].
  Proc. of IFIP/TC6 NETWORKING 2010 Conference, May 11-15, 2010, Chennai, India.
  A more detailed version is available as INRIA Research Report RR-7124.
• Sreenath Ramanath, Merouane Debbah, Eitan Altman and Vinod Kumar,
  "Asymptotic Analysis of Precoded Small Cell Networks" [pdf]
  Proc. of 29th IEEE INFOCOM Conference, March 15-19, 2010, San Diego, CA, USA.
• Sreenath Ramanath, Veeraruna Kavitha and Eitan Altman,
  "Spatial Queuing Analysis for Mobility in Pico Cell Networks" [pdf].
  Proc. of 8th Intl. Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc, and Wireless Networks (WiOpt 2010), May 31-Jun 04, Avignon, France.
• Eitan Altman and Veeraruna Kavitha,
  "Analysis and Design of Message Ferry Routes in Sensor Networks using Polling Models" [ pdf].
  Proc. of 8th Intl. Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc, and Wireless Networks (WiOpt 2010), May 31-Jun 04, Avignon, France.
• Abdulhalim Dandoush and Alain Jean-Marie,
  "Flow-Level Modeling of Parallel Download in Distributed Systems".
  Proc. of 3rd International Conference on Communication Theory, Reliability, and Quality of Service (CTRQ 2010), June 13-19, 2010, Athens, Greece.
• Eitan Altman, Pierre Bernhard, Stephan Caron, George Kesidis, Julio Rojas-Mora and Sulan Wong,
  "A Study of Non-Neutral Networks with Usage-based Prices" [pdf].
  Proc. of 3rd Workshop on Economic Traffic Management, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, September 6, 2010.
  Extended version to appear in Telecommunication Systems Journal, Special Issue on "Socio-economic Issues of Next Generation Networks".
• Emmanuel Hyon and Alain Jean-Marie,
  "Scheduling Services in a Queuing System with Impatience and Setup Costs".
  Proc. of 25th International Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences (ISCIS 2010), September 22-24, 2010, London, UK.
• Sreenath Ramanath, Veeraruna Kavitha and Eitan Altman,
  "Impact of Mobility on Call Block, Call Drops and Optimal Cell Size in Small Cell Networks" [pdf].
  Proc. of Workshop on Indoor and Outdoor Femto Cells (PIMRC 2010), September 26, 2010, Istanbul, Turkey.
• Eitan Altman, Tamer Başar and Veeraruna Kavitha,
  "Adversarial Control in a Delay Tolerant Network" [pdf].
  Proc. of 2010 Conference on Decision and Game Theory for Security (GameSec 2010), T. Alpcan, L. Buttyan and J. Baras (Eds.), LNCS 6442, pp. 87-106, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2010, Berlin, Germany, November 22-23, 2010.
• Alireza Aram, Tamer Basar, Başar, Eitan Altman Corine Toauti, Saswati Sarkar,
  ``Robust Control in Sparse Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks'', [pdf].
  Proc. of 2010 Conference on Decision and Game Theory for Security (GameSec 2010), T. Alpcan, L. Buttyan and J. Baras (Eds.), LNCS 6442, pp. 87-106, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2010, Berlin, Germany, November 22-23, 2010.
• Eitan Altman, Manjesh Kumar Hanawal and Rajesh Sundaresan,
  "Nonneutral Network and the Role of Bargaining Power in Side Payments".
  Proc. of 4th Workshop on Network Control and Optimization (NetCoop 2010), Ghent, Belgium, November 29 - December 1, 2010.
• Stephane Caron, George Kesidis and Eitan Altman,
  "Application Neutrality and a Paradox of Side Payments" [pdf].
  Proc. of 3rd International Workshop on Re-Architecting the Internet (ReArch 2010, collocated with ACM CoNEXT), Philadelphia, PA, USA, November 30, 2010.
• Ilenia Tinnirello, Laura Giarrè and Giovanni Neglia,
  "A Game Theoretic Approach to MAC Design for Infrastructure Networks" [pdf, bibtex].
  Proc. of 49th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), December 15-17, 2010, Atlanta, GA, USA.

Posters

• Jean-Claude Bermond, Dorian Mazauric, Vishal Misra and Philippe Nain,
  "A Distributed Scheduling Algorithm for Wireless Networks with Constant Overhead and Arbitrary Binary Interference" [pdf].
  Poster, Proc. of ACM SIGMETRICS Conference, June 14-18, 2010, New York, NY, USA.
• Emmanuel Hyon and Alain Jean-Marie,
  "Scheduling in a Queuing System with Impatience and Setup Costs".
  Poster, Proc. of 2010 MSOM Annual Conference, Tel Aviv, Israel, June 27-29, 2010.
• Eitan Altman, Konstantin Avrachenkov and Sreenath Ramanath,
  "Multiscale Fairness and its Applications to Wireless Networks" [pdf].
  Poster, Performance 2010 Conference, November 17-19, 2010, Namur, Belgium.
• Eitan Altman, Philippe Nain, Adam Shwartz and Yuedong Xu,
  "Predicting the Impact of Measures Against Unauthorized Downloads on the Transient Behavior of P2P Networks" [pdf].
  Poster, Performance 2010 Conference, November 17-19, 2010, Namur, Belgium.

Invited papers

• Sulan Wong and Eitan Altman,
  Restricting Internet Access: Ideology and Technology" [pdf].
  Invited paper, 2nd International Conference on Communication Systems and Networks (COMSNETS), January 5-9,2010, Bangalore, India.

Research reports

• Eitan Altman, Pierre Bernhard, George Kesidis, Julio Rojas-Mora and Sulan Wong,
  A Study of Non-Neutral Networks".
  INRIA Research Report RR-6872.
• Sulan Wong, Julio Rojas-Mora and Eitan Altman,
  "Public Consultations on Net Neutrality 2010: USA, EU and France".
  INRIA Research Report RR-7404.

Book chapters

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