TACAS
2000
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
2000
Springer
Markov chains are widely used in the context of performance and reliability evaluation of systems of various nature. Model checking of such chains with respect to a given (branchin...
EUC
2006
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
2006
Springer
Predictive p-persistent CSMA protocol is an important MAC solution developed for networked sensor/control applications and used in Local Operating Networks (LonWorks) technology. T...
DSN
2004
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
2004
IEEE
In this paper we introduce the logic asCSL, an extension of continuous stochastic logic (CSL), which provides powerful means to characterise execution paths of action- and state-l...
APPROX
2006
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
2006
Springer
In this paper, we develop a new "robust mixing" framework for reasoning about adversarially modified Markov Chains (AMMC). Let P be the transition matrix of an irreducib...
APNOMS
2006
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
2006
Springer
In this paper, we propose two mechanisms, differentiation by backoff exponent and differentiation by the size of contention window, for IEEE 802.15.4 sensor networks to provide mul...
ANSS
2004
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
2004
IEEE
The Random Early Detection (RED) scheme for congestion control in TCP is well known over a decade. Due to a number of control parameters in RED, it cannot make acceptable packet-d...
WCNC
2010
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
2010
IEEE
—Experiments show that IEEE 802.11 DCF system exhibits unstable behavior in the congestion onset load range where the system starts to become saturated. This phenomenon is not we...
CDC
2009
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
2009
IEEE
This paper studies the input design problem for system identification where time domain constraints have to be considered. A finite Markov chain is used to model the input of the s...
FOCS
2000
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2000
IEEE
For many probability distributions of interest, it is quite difficult to obtain samples efficiently. Often, Markov chains are employed to obtain approximately random samples fro...
CDC
2009
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2009
IEEE
— This paper addresses model reduction for a Markov chain on a large state space. A simulation-based framework is introduced to perform state aggregation of the Markov chain base...