Communication Networks

SERIES EDITOR:
R. Srikant, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
This series covers topics on the design, implementation, and management of communication networks. Each lecture is a self-contained presentation of one topic by a leading expert. The topics range from algorithms to hardware implementations and cover a broad spectrum of issues from security to multiple-access protocols. The series addresses technologies from sensor networks to reconfigurable optical networks.

The series is designed to:

* Provide the best available presentations of important aspects of communication networks.
* Help engineers and advanced students keep up with recent developments in a rapidly evolving technology.
* Facilitate the development of courses in this field

Series ISSNs: print 1935-4185 / electronic 1935-4193

Founding Editor Emeritus: Jean Walrand, University of California, Berkeley

Editor Bios

	Diffusion Source Localization in Large Networks Lei Ying, Kai Zhu Diffusion processes in large networks have been used to model many real-world phenomena, including how rumors spread on the Internet, epidemics among human beings, emotional contagion through social networks, and even gene regulatory processes. Funda… Publication Date: June, 2018 Read More
	Communication Networks, 2nd Edition Jean Walrand, Shyam Parekh This book results from many years of teaching an upper division course on communication networks in the EECS department at the University of California, Berkeley. It is motivated by the perceived need for an easily accessible textbook that puts empha… Publication Date: December, 2017 Read More
	BATS Codes Shenghao Yang, Raymond W. Yeung This book discusses an efficient random linear network coding scheme, called BATched Sparse code, or BATS code, which is proposed for communication through multi-hop networks with packet loss. Multi-hop wireless networks have applications in the Inte… Publication Date: September, 2017 Read More
	Analytical Methods for Network Congestion Control Steven H. Low The congestion control mechanism has been responsible for maintaining stability as the Internet scaled up by many orders of magnitude in size, speed, traffic volume, coverage, and complexity over the last three decades. In this book, we develop a coh… Publication Date: July, 2017 Read More
	Advances in Multi-Channel Resource Allocation Bo Ji, Xiaojun Lin, Ness B. Shroff The last decade has seen an unprecedented growth in the demand for wireless services. These services are fueled by applications that often require not only high data rates, but also very low latency to function as desired. However, as wireless networ… Publication Date: November, 2016 Read More
	A Primer on Physical-Layer Network Coding Soung Chang Liew, Lu Lu, Shengli Zhang The concept of physical-layer network coding (PNC) was proposed in 2006 for application in wireless networks. Since then it has developed into a subfield of communications and networking with a wide following. This book is a primer on PNC. It is the … Publication Date: June, 2015 Read More
	Sharing Network Resources Abhey Parekh, Jean Walrand Resource Allocation lies at the heart of network control. In the early days of the Internet the scarcest resource was bandwidth, but as the network has evolved to become an essential utility in the lives of billions, the nature of the resource alloca… Publication Date: 04/01/2014 Read More
	Wireless Network Pricing Jianwei Huang, Lin Gao Today’s wireless communications and networking practices are tightly coupled with economic considerations, to the extent that it is almost impossible to make a sound technology choice without understanding the corresponding economic implications. Th… Publication Date: 06/01/2013 Read More
	Packets with Deadlines I-Hong Hou, P.R. Kumar With the explosive increase in the number of mobile devices and applications, it is anticipated that wireless traffic will increase exponentially in the coming years. Moreover, future wireless networks all carry a wide variety of flows, such as vide… Publication Date: 03/01/2013 Read More
	NS Simulator for Beginners Eitan Altman, Tania Jimenez 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 … Publication Date: 01/01/2012 Read More
	Energy-Efficient Scheduling under Delay Constraints for Wireless Networks Randall Berry, Eytan Modiano, Murtaza Zafer Packet delay and energy consumption are important considerations in wireless and sensor networks as these metrics directly affect the quality of service of the application and the resource consumption of the network; especially, for a rapidly growing… Publication Date: 01/01/2012 Read More
	Stochastic Network Optimization with Application to Communication and Queueing Systems Michael Neely This text presents a modern theory of analysis, control, and optimization for dynamic networks. Mathematical techniques of Lyapunov drift and Lyapunov optimization are developed and shown to enable constrained optimization of time averages in general… Publication Date: 01/01/2010 Read More
	Scheduling and Congestion Control for Wireless and Processing Networks Libin Jiang, Jean Walrand In this book, we consider the problem of achieving the maximum throughput and utility in a class of networks with resource-sharing constraints. This is a classical problem of great importance. In the context of wireless networks, we first propose a f… Publication Date: 01/01/2010 Read More
	Performance Modeling, Loss Networks, and Statistical Multiplexing, Second Edition Ravi Mazumdar This monograph presents a concise mathematical approach for modeling and analyzing the performance of communication networks with the aim of introducing an appropriate mathematical framework for modeling and analysis as well as understanding the phen… Publication Date: 06/18/2013 Read More
	Performance Modeling of Communication Networks with Markov Chains Jeonghoon Mo This book is an introduction to Markov chain modeling with applications to communication networks. It begins with a general introduction to performance modeling in Chapter 1 where we introduce different performance models. We then introduce basic ide… Publication Date: 01/01/2010 Read More
	Path Problems in Networks John Baras, George Theodorakopoulos The algebraic path problem is a generalization of the shortest path problem in graphs. Various instances of this abstract problem have appeared in the literature, and similar solutions have been independently discovered and rediscovered. The repeated… Publication Date: 01/01/2010 Read More
	Network Games Asu Ozdaglar, Ishai Menache Traditional network optimization focuses on a single control objective in a network populated by obedient users and limited dispersion of information. However, most of today’s networks are large-scale with lack of access to centralized information, c… Publication Date: 01/01/2011 Read More
	An Introduction to Models of Online Peer-to-Peer Social Networking George Kesidis, This book concerns peer-to-peer applications and mechanisms operating on the Internet, particularly those that are not fully automated and involve significant human interaction. So, the realm of interest is the intersection of distributed systems and… Publication Date: 01/01/2010 Read More
	Network Simulation Richard M. Fujimoto, Kalyan S. Perumalla, George F. Riley A detailed introduction to the design, implementation, and use of network simulation tools is presented. The requirements and issues faced in the design of simulators for wired and wireless networks are discussed. Abstractions such as packet- and flu… Publication Date: 01/01/2006 Read More