Physics-Inspired Paradigms in

Wireless Communications and Networks

April 4th, 2008, Berlin, Germany

 

 

 

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Venue: Golden Tulip - Berlin Hotel Hamburg

Room: Kiel 4+5

Technical Program

8:30 - 9:15

Keynote Speaker: Iraj Saniee

Stability and Optimality in Self-Organized Control:

Two Examples from Telecom Networking

9:15 - 9:40

J. Baras

Efficiency of Small World Topologies in Accelerating Convergence of Distributed Dynamics on Graphs

9:40 - 10:05

P. Santi

Evaluating the effects of strategic node behavior on opportunistic

routing performance

10:05 - 10:30

 M. Gatzianas, L. Georgiadis and L. Tassiulas

Efficient Energy management for wireless networks with rechargeable batteries

10:30 - 10:45

Coffee Break - Poster Session

10:45 - 11:10

H. Reittu and I. Norros

Urn models and peer-to-peer file sharing

11:10 - 11:35

E. Altman, V. Kamble and H. Kameda

A Braess Type Paradox in Power Control Over Interference Channels

11:35 - 12:00

C. Constantinou and A. Stepanenko

Network protocol scalability via a topological Kadanoff transformation

12:00 - 12:25

I. Lerner, I. Yurkevich, A. Stepanenko and C. Constantinou

Loss Fluctuations and Temporal Correlations in Network Queues

12:25 - 13:30

 

Lunch Break

 

13:30 - 14:15

Keynote Speaker: Marc Mezard

Mean field methods in optimization and information processing

14:15 - 14:40

D. Saad, K. Y. Wong and C. H. Yeung

 Network Optimisation - A Statistical Physics Perspective

14:40 - 15:05

D. Challet and S. Valverde

Fat tails, long memory, maturity and ageing in open-source software projects

15:05 - 15:20

Coffee Break - Poster Session

15:20 - 15:45

A. Proutiere

Performance of Wireless Networks via Mean Field Limits

15:45 - 16:10

J-Y. LeBoudec and M. Benaim

A Class Of Mean Field Interaction Models for Computer and Communication Systems

16:10 - 16:35

L. Cottatellucci, T. Chan and N. Fawaz

Large System Design and Analysis of Protocols for Decode-Forward Relay Networks

16:35 - 16:50

Coffee Break - Poster Session

16:50 - 17:15

T. Tanaka

Interference Reduction in CDMA Channels: A Statistical-Mechanics Approach

17:15 - 17:40

M. Debbah and O. Ryan

On the limiting moments of Vandermonde Random Matrices

17:40 - 18:05

Y. Kabashima

An integral formula for large random rectangular matrices and its application to analysis of linear vector channels

18:05 - 18:35 Poster Session

Poster Session Program

E. Altman, R. El-Azouzi, Y. Hayel and T. Hamidou

An Evolutionary Game approach for the design of congestion control protocols in wireless networks

K. Ichikawa, M. Uchida, M. Tsuru and Y. Oie

Scaling properties of complex networks: Towards Wilsonian renormalization for complex networks

R. Alamino and D. Saad

Typical Performance of Generalised Vector Channels

J. Raymond  and D. Saad

Randomness and metastability in CDMA paradigms