NET-COOP 2009

 
November 23-24-25, 2009
EURANDOM, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

PROGRAM


Monday November 23, 2009


09.45 - 10.00 Opening

10.00 - 10.45 Invited lecture: Philippe Robert
                   Stability Properties of Networks with Interacting TCP Flows

10.45 - 11.00 Break

11.00 - 12.00 Session 1: Performance analysis methods
                   Bernd Heidergott and Warren Volk-Makarewicz
                   Quantile Sensitivity Estimation


                   Philippe Olivier
                   Performance Evaluation of Multi-rate Streaming Traffic by Quasi-Stationary Modelling

12.00 - 13.00 Lunch

13.00 - 13.45 Invited lecture: Hans van den Berg
                        
Self-Optimisation of Mobile Networks

14.00 - 15.00 Session 2: Wireless I
                   Beiyu Rong and Anthony Ephremides
                   On Opportunistic Cooperation for Improving the Stability Region With Multipacket Reception

                   José Niño-Mora   
                   A Restless Bandit Marginal Productivity Index for Opportunistic Spectrum Access with Sensing Errors

15.00 - 15.30 Break

15.30 - 16.15 Invited lecture: Mor Harchol-Balter
                   Surprising Results on Task Assignment in Server Farms under High Variability Workloads

16.15 - 16.30 Break

16.30 - 17.30 Session 3: Queueing analysis I
                   Folkert van Vliet, Richard J. Boucherie, Maurits de Graaf
                   Content-Based Routing in Networks with Time-Fluctuating Request Rates

                   Michel Mandjes and Piotr Zuraniewski
                   A Queueing-Based Approach to Overload Detection

18.00 dinner to start with an aperitif in Restaurant ' la Biba' , Kerkstraat 3, Eindhoven, 040 2962200


Tuesday November 24, 2009


09.15 - 10.00 Invited lecture: Rami Atar
                   Control Formulations under the Nondegenerate Slowdown Diffusion Regime

10.00 - 10.30 Session 4: Queueing analysis II
                   Adam Shwartz, Rami Atar and Yair Shaki
                   Blind Policies for Large Server Pools

10.30 - 10.45 Break

10.45 - 11.15 Session 4: Queueing analysis II (continued)
                   Denis Miretskiy, Werner Scheinhardt and Michel Mandjes
                   Rare-Event Simulation for Tandem Queues: A Simple and Efficient Importance Sampling Scheme


11.15 - 12.00
Invited lecture: Costas Courcoubetis
                   Tariffs, Mechanisms and Internet Equilibria

12.00 - 13.00 Lunch

13.00 - 13.45 Invited lecture: Eitan Altman
                   An Anonymous Sequential Game Approach for Battery State Dependent Power Control

13.45 - 14.00 Break

14.00 - 15.00 Session 5: Battery control
                   Ingemar Kaj
                   Probabilistic Analysis of Hierarchical Cluster Protocols for Wireless Sensor Networks

                   Koen De Turck, Stijn De Vuyst, Dieter Fiems, Sabine Wittevrongel and Herwig Bruneel
                   Performance of the Sleep-Mode Mechanism of the New IEEE 802.16m Proposal for Correlated
                   Downlink Traffic

15.00 - 15.30 Break

15.30 - 16.15 Invited lecture: Devavrat Shah
                   Network algorithms made distributed

16.15 - 16.30 Break

16.30 - 17.30 Session 6: Wireless II
                   Balaji Rengarajan and Gustavo de Veciana
                   User Association to Optimize Flow Level Performance in Wireless Systems with Dynamic Interference


                   Gerard Hoekstra, Rob van der Mei, Yoni Nazarathy and Bert Zwart
                   Optimal File Splitting for Wireless Networks With Concurrent Access


Wednesday November 25, 2009

Euro-NF workshop on “New Trends in Modeling, Quantitative Methods, and Measurements”


10.00 - 10.45 Invited lecture: Damon Wischik
                   Control of Multipath TCP and Optimization of Multipath Routing in the Internet

10.45 - 11.00 Break

11.00 - 12.00 Session 7: Distributed control
                   Eitan Altman, Kostia Avrachenkov and Andrey Garnaev
                   Alpha-Fair Resource Allocation under Incomplete Information and Presence of a Jammer

                   Sergey Foss and Andrey M. Turlikov
                   Decentralised Stable Protocols for a Multi-Access Broadcast Channel with "Yes-No" Feedback

12.00 - 13.00 Lunch

13.00 - 13.45 Lecture Johan van Leeuwaarden
                       
Optimal tradeoff between exposed and hidden nodes in large wireless networks

13.45 - 14.00 Break

14.00 - 15.00 Session 8: Cooperation and competition
                   Patrick Maille, Maurizio Naldi and Bruno Tuffin
                   Understanding and Preventing Tacit Collusion among Telecommunication Operators


                   Eitan Altman
                   Competition and Cooperation Between Nodes in Delay Tolerant Networks with Two Hop Routing

15.00 Closing
 

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