Network Control and Optimization

1. Front Matter

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2. Economics and Peer-to-Peer Networks

   1. A Comparison of Bilateral and Multilateral Exchanges for Peer-Assisted Content Distribution

      • Christina Aperjis, Michael J. Freedman, Ramesh Johari

      Pages 1-8

   2. Auctions for Resource Allocation in Overlay Networks

      • Pablo Belzarena, Andrés Ferragut, Fernando Paganini

      Pages 9-16

   3. Marketing in a Random Network

      • Hamed Amini, Moez Draief, Marc Lelarge

      Pages 17-25

   4. A Stochastic Epidemiological Model and a Deterministic Limit for BitTorrent-Like Peer-to-Peer File-Sharing Networks

      • George Kesidis, Takis Konstantopoulos, Perla Sousi

      Pages 26-36

3. Routing and Measurements

   1. Ant Colony Optimization Algorithms for Shortest Path Problems

      • Sudha Rani Kolavali, Shalabh Bhatnagar

      Pages 37-44

   2. MPLS Online Routing Optimization Using Prediction

      • Abutaleb Abdelmohdi Turky, Andreas Mitschele-Thiel

      Pages 45-52

   3. On the Identifiability of Link Service Curves from End-Host Measurements

      • Amr Rizk, Markus Fidler

      Pages 53-61

4. Scheduling

   1. Opportunistic Transmission over Randomly Varying Channels

      • Vivek S. Borkar

      Pages 62-69

   2. On the Variance of the Least Attained Service Policy and Its Use in Multiple Bottleneck Networks

      • Matthias Auchmann, Guillaume Urvoy-Keller

      Pages 70-77

   3. A Marginal Productivity Index Rule for Scheduling Multiclass Queues with Setups

      • José Niño-Mora

      Pages 78-86

5. TCP and Congestion Control

   1. A Heuristic Approach to the Passive Detection of Reno-Like TCP Flows

      • Miguel Rodríguez-Pérez, Manuel Fernández-Veiga, Sergio Herrería-Alonso, Cándido López-García

      Pages 87-94

   2. Oscillations of the Sending Window in Compound TCP

      • Alberto Blanc, Denis Collange, Konstantin Avrachenkov

      Pages 95-102

6. Wireless Networks

   1. Optimum Channel Allocation in OFDMA Multi-cell Systems

      • Andrea Abrardo, Paolo Detti, Gaia Nicosia, Andrea Pacifici, Mara Servilio

      Pages 103-111

   2. Transmission Power Control Game with SINR as Objective Function

      • Eitan Altman, Konstantin Avrachenkov, Andrey Garnaev

      Pages 112-120

   3. Battery State-Dependent Access Control in Solar-Powered Broadband Wireless Networks

      • Hamidou Tembine, Eitan Altman, Rachid El-Azouzi, Yezekael Hayel

      Pages 121-129

7. Back Matter

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second Euro-NF International Conference, NET-COOP 2008 held in Paris, France, in September 2008. The 13 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 27 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on economics and peer-to-peer networks; routing and measurements; scheduling; tcp and congestion control; as well as wireless networks.

• Peer
• ad-hoc networks
• congested networks
• distributed algorithms
• game theory
• interdomain routing
• optimization
• overlay networks
• queueing theory
• routing
• routing protocols
• scheduling
• sensor networks
• stochastic control theory
• wirel
• algorithm analysis and problem complexity

• INRIA, Sophia-Antipolis, France

  Eitan Altman

• Augustin CHAINTREAU Thomson, Boulogne CEDEX, France

  Augustin Chaintreau

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