Conference on Stochastic Networks

Program Schedule
June 19 – 24, 2000

Registration:  8:00 - 4:30, Monday, June 19

Coffee will be available each morning beginning at 8:00

 

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

 8:45

Opening Remarks

 

 

 

 

 

 9:00

Bruce Hajek

Information Constrained Routing in Massive Ad Hoc Networks

(slides : PDF 1.4M)

Sean Meyn

Control of Large Networks

Venkat Anantharam

Pricing the Internet

Walter Willinger

Scaling Properties of Network Traffic as Signatures of Underlying User and/or Protocol Characteristics

Michael Harrison

Stochastic Processing Networks: Heavy traffic, Brownian models and optimal system design

(slides : PDF 36K)

Peter Glynn

Limit Theorems for Queues with Scheduled Arrivals

(slides : PDF 500K)

10:00

Break

Break

Break

Break

Break

Break

10:30

Don Towsley

Network Tomography through End-to-End Multicast Measurements

Marty Reiman

A Comparison of Two Heavy Traffic Regimes for Multiserver Queueing Networks

Shi-Jie Deng

Pricing Electricity Derivatives under Alternative Stochastic Models and Its Application

(slides : PDF 600K)

Ward Whitt

Jumps

Maury Bramson

Application of Fluid Models to Heavy Traffic Limits of Some Queueing Networks

Francois Bacelli

A Stochastic Geometry Model of CDMA Coverage

 

(slides:  PS 2647K)

11:30

Nicholas Bambos


Queueing Models And Problems In Wireless Network Control

Peter Key


Distributed Admission Control for Packet-Based Networks

Chris DeMarco

Electric Power Network Response to Random Demand Variations: A large deviations view on the voltage collapse phenomena

(slides : PDF 39K)

Balaji Prabhakar


Coping with problems of scale in networking: Examples and solutions

Ruth Williams

On Dynamic Control of Stochastic Networks in Heavy Traffic

Volker Schmidt

On Laslett's Transformation for the Boolean Model

12:30

Lunch

Lunch

Lunch

Lunch

Lunch

Lunch

 2:15

P. R. Kumar

Capacity and Scaling Laws for Wireless Networks: How much traffic can they carry?

(slides : gzipped postscript 500K)

Contributed Talks

Debasis Mitra

Traffic Engineering and Control for the Management of Service Level Agreements in Packet Networks

Contributed Talks

Contributed Talks

Frank Kelly

Models for a Self-managed Internet

 3:15

Break

Break

Break

Break

Break

Closing

 3:45

Jim Dai

Fluid Model and Stability of a Stochastic Network

Contributed Talks

Jennifer Rexford

Traffic Engineering for Internet Service Provider Networks

(slides : powerpoint 800K)

Free

Contributed Talks

 

 

Reception

Immediately following

last talk

 

 

Dinner

6:30 PM

 

 


Workshop on Stochastic Networks

Program Schedule
June 26-30, 2000

The Workshop will feature lecture series by

q       François Baccelli, INRIA and Ecole Normale Supérieure, Modeling of flow control in stochastic networks

q       Frank Kelly , Cambridge University, Network pricing and control

q       Walter Willinger, AT&T Labs Research, Scaling phenomena and data network traffic

Coffee will be available each morning beginning at 8:00

 

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

8:45

Opening remarks

 

 

 

 

9:00

Kelly I

Kelly III

Willinger II

(slides : postscript 250K)

Bacelli III

Willinger V

(slides : postscript 170K)

10:20

Break

Break

Break

Break

Break

10:40

Willinger I

(slides : postscript 250K)

Bacelli I

Bacelli II

Willinger IV

(slides : postscript 200K)

Bacelli V

12:00

Lunch

Lunch

Lunch

Lunch

Lunch

2:00

Kelly II

Kelly IV

Willinger III

(slides : postscript 230K)

Bacelli IV

Panel

  • Rajeev Agrawal
  • Francois Bacelli
  • Chris DeMarco
  • Mary Vernon
  • Walter Willinger

3:20

Break

Break

Break

Break

 

3:50

Gromoll

Fluid Approximation of a Heavily Loaded Processor Sharing Queue

 

 

 

 

Limic

A LIFO Queue in Heavy Traffic

Teh

Critical Thresholds for Dynamic Routing in Queueing Networks

(slides : PDF 100K)

Ward

A Diffusion Approximation for a Markovian Queue with Reneging

 

 

 

4:10

Puha

A Fluid Model for a Processor Sharing Queue

Nunez-Queija

When are Sojourn Time and Service Requirement Distributions Equally Heavy-Tailed?

Johari

End-to-End Congestion Control for the Internet: Delays and Stability

Gusak

Stochastic Automata Networks and Near Complete Decomposability

 

4:30

Ramanan

Solutions to Certain OptimalControl Problems on Domains with Corners

Tinnakornsrisuphap

On the Effect of TCP Congestion Control Mechanism on Network Traffic

(slides : gzipped postscript 250K)

Jenny Steichen

Heavy Traffic Limit Theorems for the Closed Lu-Kumar Network

Economou

A Model for Queueing Networks with Single Arrivals, Batch Services and Customer Coalescence

 

4:50

Short Break

Short Break

Short Break

Short Break

 

5:00

Wischik

Moderate deviations in queueing theory

(slides : postscript 150K)

Mannersalo

Most Probable Paths and Performance Formulae for Buffers with Gaussian Input Traffic

Martin

Large Tandem Queueing Networks with Blocking

Starobinski

Probabilistic Models for Web Caching

 

5:20

Zeevi

On the Maximum Workload and Monitoring Buffer Loss Probabilities in Queues

El Merzouqi

On the Stability of the Bramson-Lu-Kumar queueing network

Chen

Detecting randomness by recurrent patterns

Nguyen

On a Multiclass Arrival Retrial Queue with Server's Vacations

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


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