Network Control and Optimization

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second Euro-NF International Conference, NET-COOP 2008 held in Paris, France, in September 2008. The 13 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 27 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on economics and peer-to-peer networks; routing and measurements; scheduling; tcp and congestion control; as well as wireless networks.

Economics and Peer-to-Peer Networks.- A Comparison of Bilateral and Multilateral Exchanges for Peer-Assisted Content Distribution.- Auctions for Resource Allocation in Overlay Networks.- Marketing in a Random Network.- A Stochastic Epidemiological Model and a Deterministic Limit for BitTorrent-Like Peer-to-Peer File-Sharing Networks.- Routing and Measurements.- Ant Colony Optimization Algorithms for Shortest Path Problems.- MPLS Online Routing Optimization Using Prediction.- On the Identifiability of Link Service Curves from End-Host Measurements.- Scheduling.- Opportunistic Transmission over Randomly Varying Channels.- On the Variance of the Least Attained Service Policy and Its Use in Multiple Bottleneck Networks.- A Marginal Productivity Index Rule for Scheduling Multiclass Queues with Setups.- TCP and Congestion Control.- A Heuristic Approach to the Passive Detection of Reno-Like TCP Flows.- Oscillations of the Sending Window in Compound TCP.- Wireless Networks.- Optimum Channel Allocation in OFDMA Multi-cell Systems.- Transmission Power Control Game with SINR as Objective Function.- Battery State-Dependent Access Control in Solar-Powered Broadband Wireless Networks.