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NS Simulator for Beginners

By: Eitan Altman,Tania Jiménez

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NS-2 is an open-source discrete event network simulator which is widely used by both the research community as well as by the people involved in the standardization protocols of IETF. The goal of this book is twofold: on one hand to learn how to use the NS-2 simulator, and on the other hand, to become acquainted with and to understand the operation of some of the simulated objects using NS-2 simulations. The book is intended to help students, engineers or researchers who need not have much background in programming or who want to learn through simple examples how to analyse some simulated objects using NS-2. Simulations may differ from each other in many aspects: the applications, topologies, parameters of network objects (links, nodes) and protocols used, etc. The first chapter is a general introduction to the book, where the importance of NS-2 as a tool for a good comprehension of networks and protocols is stated. In the next chapters we present special topics as TCP, RED, etc., using NS-2 as a tool for better understanding the protocols. We provide in the appendices a review of Random Variables and Confidence Intervals, as well as a first sketch for using the new NS-3 simulator. Table of Contents: Introduction / NS-2 Simulator Preliminaries / How to work with trace files / Description and simulation of TCP/IP / Routing and network dynamics / RED: Random Early Discard / Differentiated Services / Mobile Networks and Wireless Local Area Networks / Classical queueing models / Tcl and C++ linkage

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3031792513

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Constrained Markov Decision Processes

By: Eitan Altman

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Constrained Markov Decision Processes

By: Eitan Altman

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1351458248

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Discrete-Event Control of Stochastic Networks: Multimodularity and Regularity

By: Eitan Altman,Bruno Gaujal,Arie Hordijk

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Discrete-Event Control of Stochastic Networks: Multimodularity and Regularity

By: Eitan Altman,Bruno Gaujal,Arie Hordijk

Opening new directions in research in both discrete event dynamic systems as well as in stochastic control, this volume focuses on a wide class of control and of optimization problems over sequences of integer numbers. This is a counterpart of convex optimization in the setting of discrete optimization. The theory developed is applied to the control of stochastic discrete-event dynamic systems. Some applications are admission, routing, service allocation and vacation control in queuing networks. Pure and applied mathematicians will enjoy reading the book since it brings together many disciplines in mathematics: combinatorics, stochastic processes, stochastic control and optimization, discrete event dynamic systems, algebra.

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303

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Springer

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3540397051

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Advances in Dynamic Games and Applications

By: Eitan Altmann,Odile Pourtallier

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Advances in Dynamic Games and Applications

By: Eitan Altmann,Odile Pourtallier

Game theory is a rich and active area of research of which this new volume of the Annals of the International Society of Dynamic Games is yet fresh evidence. Since the second half of the 20th century, the area of dynamic games has man aged to attract outstanding mathematicians, who found exciting open questions requiring tools from a wide variety of mathematical disciplines; economists, so cial and political scientists, who used game theory to model and study competition and cooperative behavior; and engineers, who used games in computer sciences, telecommunications, and other areas. The contents of this volume are primarily based on selected presentation made at the 8th International Symposium of Dynamic Games and Applications, held in Chateau Vaalsbroek, Maastricht, the Netherlands, July 5-8, 1998; this conference took place under the auspices of the International Society of Dynamic Games (ISDG), established in 1990. The conference has been cosponsored by the Control Systems Society of the IEEE, IFAC (International Federation of Automatic Con trol), INRIA (Institute National de Recherche en Informatique et Automatique), and the University of Maastricht. One ofthe activities of the ISDG is the publica tion of the Annals. Every paper that appears in this volume has passed through a stringent reviewing process, as is the case with publications for archival journals.

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343

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1461201551

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Constrained Markov Decision Processes

By: Eitan Altman

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Constrained Markov Decision Processes

By: Eitan Altman

This book provides a unified approach for the study of constrained Markov decision processes with a finite state space and unbounded costs. Unlike the single controller case considered in many other books, the author considers a single controller with several objectives, such as minimizing delays and loss, probabilities, and maximization of throughputs. It is desirable to design a controller that minimizes one cost objective, subject to inequality constraints on other cost objectives. This framework describes dynamic decision problems arising frequently in many engineering fields. A thorough overview of these applications is presented in the introduction. The book is then divided into three sections that build upon each other. The first part explains the theory for the finite state space. The author characterizes the set of achievable expected occupation measures as well as performance vectors, and identifies simple classes of policies among which optimal policies exist. This allows the reduction of the original dynamic into a linear program. A Lagranian approach is then used to derive the dual linear program using dynamic programming techniques. In the second part, these results are extended to the infinite state space and action spaces. The author provides two frameworks: the case where costs are bounded below and the contracting framework. The third part builds upon the results of the first two parts and examines asymptotical results of the convergence of both the value and the policies in the time horizon and in the discount factor. Finally, several state truncation algorithms that enable the approximation of the solution of the original control problem via finite linear programs are given.

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CRC Press

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0849303826

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NS Simulator for Beginners

By: Eitan Altman,Tania Jiménez

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By: Eitan Altman,Tania Jiménez

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Network Control and Optimization

Second EuroFGI Workshop, NET-COOP 2008 Paris, France, September 8-10, 2008, Revised Selected Papers

By: Eitan Altman,Augustin Chaintreau

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Network Control and Optimization

Second EuroFGI Workshop, NET-COOP 2008 Paris, France, September 8-10, 2008, Revised Selected Papers

By: Eitan Altman,Augustin Chaintreau

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.

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3642003923

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NS Simulator for Beginners

NS Simulator for Beginners

Constrained Markov Decision Processes

Constrained Markov Decision Processes

Discrete-Event Control of Stochastic Networks: Multimodularity and Regularity

Discrete-Event Control of Stochastic Networks: Multimodularity and Regularity

Advances in Dynamic Games and Applications

Advances in Dynamic Games and Applications

Constrained Markov Decision Processes

Constrained Markov Decision Processes

NS Simulator for Beginners

NS Simulator for Beginners

Network Control and Optimization

Network Control and Optimization

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