Network Control and Optimization

We are proud to present the proceedings of NET-COOP 2009, the inter- tionalconferenceonnetworkcontrolandoptimization,co-organizedbyEURAN- DOM/Eindhoven University of Technology and CWI. This year's conference at EURANDOM, held November 2325, was the third in line after previous e- tions in Avignon (2007) and Paris (2008). NET-COOP 2009 was organized in conjunction with the Euro-NF workshop on New Trends in Modeling, Quan- tative Methods, and Measurements. While organized within the framework of Euro-NF, NET-COOP enjoys great interest beyond Euro-NF, as is attested by the geographic origins of the papers in these proceedings. TheNET-COOPconferencefocusesonperformanceanalysis,controland- timization of communication networks, including wired networks, wireless n- works, peer to peer networks and delay tolerant networks. In each of these domains network operators and service providers face the challenging task to e?ciently provide service at their customer's standards in a highly dynamic - vironment. Internet tra?c continues to grow tremendously in terms of volume as well as diversity. This development is fueled by the increasing availability of high-bandwidth access (both wired and wireless) to end users, opening new ground for evolving and newly emerging wide-band applications. The increase in network complexity, as well as the plurality of parties involved in network operation, calls for e?cient distributed control. New models and techniques for the control and optimization of networks are needed to address the challenge of allocating communication resources e?ciently and fairly, while accounting for non-cooperative behavior.

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third Euro-NF International Conference, NET-COOP 2009 held in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, in November 2009.

The 18 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on performance analysis methods, wireless, queueing analysis, battery control, distributed control, and cooperation and competition.

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Performance Analysis Methods.- Stability Properties of Networks with Interacting TCP Flows.- Quantile Sensitivity Estimation.- Performance Evaluation of Multi-rate Streaming Traffic by Quasi-Stationary Modelling.- Wireless I.- On Opportunistic Cooperation for Improving the Stability Region with Multipacket Reception.- A Restless Bandit Marginal Productivity Index for Opportunistic Spectrum Access with Sensing Errors.- Queueing Analysis.- Content-Based Routing in Networks with Time-Fluctuating Request Rates.- A Queueing-Based Approach to Overload Detection.- Rare-Event Simulation for Tandem Queues: A Simple and Efficient Importance Sampling Scheme.- Battery Control.- An Anonymous Sequential Game Approach for Battery State Dependent Power Control.- Probabilistic Analysis of Hierarchical Cluster Protocols for Wireless Sensor Networks.- Performance of the Sleep-Mode Mechanism of the New IEEE 802.16m Proposal for Correlated Downlink Traffic.- Wireless II.- User Association to Optimize Flow Level Performance in Wireless Systems with Dynamic Interference.- Optimal File Splitting for Wireless Networks with Concurrent Access.- Distributed Control.- Control of Multipath TCP and Optimization of Multipath Routing in the Internet.- Alpha-Fair Resource Allocation under Incomplete Information and Presence of a Jammer.- Cooperation and Competition.- Tariffs, Mechanisms and Equilibria at a Single Internet Link.- Understanding and Preventing Tacit Collusion among Telecommunication Operators.- Competition and Cooperation between Nodes in Delay Tolerant Networks with Two Hop Routing.