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INFOCOM
2007
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
On the Optimality and Interconnection of Valiant Load-Balancing Networks
— The Valiant Load-Balancing (VLB) design has been proposed for a backbone network architecture that can efficiently provide predictable performance under changing traffic matr...
Moshe Babaioff, John Chuang
INFOCOM
2007
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Separability and Topology Control of Quasi Unit Disk Graphs
— A deep understanding of the structural properties of wireless networks is critical for evaluating the performance of network protocols and improving their designs. Many protoco...
Jianer Chen, Anxiao Jiang, Iyad A. Kanj, Ge Xia, F...
INFOCOM
2007
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Reliable Broadcast in Wireless Networks with Probabilistic Failures
We consider the problem of reliable broadcast in a wireless network in which nodes are prone to failure. In the failure mode considered in this paper, each node can fail independe...
Vartika Bhandari, Nitin H. Vaidya
INFOCOM
2007
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
RMAC: A Routing-Enhanced Duty-Cycle MAC Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks
—Duty-cycle MAC protocols have been proposed to meet the demanding energy requirements of wireless sensor networks. Although existing duty-cycle MAC protocols such as S-MAC are p...
Shu Du, Amit Kumar Saha, David B. Johnson
INFOCOM
2007
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
The Impact of Stochastic Noisy Feedback on Distributed Network Utility Maximization
—The implementation of distributed network utility maximization (NUM) algorithms hinges heavily on information feedback through message passing among network elements. In practic...
Junshan Zhang, Dong Zheng, Mung Chiang
INFOCOM
2007
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Joint Optimal Channel Probing and Transmission in Collocated Wireless Networks
— We consider a collocated wireless network where all links contend for a given channel and each link can hear others’ transmissions. Due to channel fading, the link condition ...
Dong Zheng, Junshan Zhang
INFOCOM
2007
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Toward Optimal Data Aggregation in Random Wireless Sensor Networks
Abstract— Data gathering is one of the most important services provided by wireless sensor networks (WSNs). Since the predominant traffic pattern in data gathering services is m...
Rong Zheng, Richard J. Barton
INFOCOM
2007
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Cross-Layer Analysis of Rate Adaptation, DCF and TCP in Multi-Rate WLANs
—Wireless Internet access is facilitated by IEEE 802.11 WLANs that, in addition to realizing a specific form of CSMA/CA—distributed coordination function (DCF)— implement a ...
Jaehyuk Choi, Kihong Park, Chongkwon Kim
INFOCOM
2007
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Neighborhood Watch for Internet Routing: Can We Improve the Robustness of Internet Routing Today?
— Protecting BGP routing from errors and malice is one of the next big challenges for Internet routing. Several approaches have been proposed that attempt to capture and block ro...
Georgos Siganos, Michalis Faloutsos
INFOCOM
2007
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
The Causal Factors Behind Internet Power-Law Connectivity
— In this paper, we investigate the impact of layer-2 devices on our perception of the Internet IP topology and on the performance and security of the Internet. We make the case ...
Sangmin Kim, Khaled Harfoush