Optimization based approaches for congestion control

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• S. H. Low and D. E. Lapsley, "Optimization Flow Control-I: Basic Algorithm and Convergence," IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, vol. 7, no. 6, pp. 861-874, December 1999.
• S. Low, "A Duality Model of TCP and Queue Management Algorithms," IEEE/ACM Trans. on Networking, 11(4):525-536, August 2003
• S. Kunniyur and R. Srikant, "End-to-end congestion control: utility functions, random losses and ECN marks," IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Oct. 2003, pp. 689-702.
• Kunniyur and R. Srikant, "A time-scale decomposition approach to adaptive ECN marking," IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, June 2002.
• S. Kunniyur and R. Srikant. "Analysis and Design of an Adaptive Virtual Queue Algorithm for Active Queue Management," IEEE ACM Transactions on Networking, April 2004, pp. 286-299.
• S. H. Low and R. Srikant, "A Mathematical Framework for Designing a Low-Loss Low-Delay Internet," Network and Spatial Economics, vol. 4, no. 1, pp. 75-102, March 2004.
• R. Srikant, The Mathematics of Internet Congestion Control. Birkhauser, 2004.

Stability under feedback delays

• Johari, R., and Tan, D., "End-to-end congestion control for the Internet: delays and stability," IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking 9 (6): 818-832, December 2001.
• S. H. Low, F. Paganini, J. Wang, S. Adlakha and J. C. Doyle, "Dynamics of TCP/RED and a Scalable Control," IEEE Infocom, June 2002
• S. Kunniyur and R. Srikant. "Stable, Scalable, Fair Congestion Control and AQM Schemes that Achieve High Utilization in the Internet." IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2003, pp. 2024-2029
• S. Deb and R. Srikant, "Global stability of congestion controllers for the Internet," IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 48, no. 6, June 2003, pages 1055-1060.

Opportunistic scheduling in wireless networks

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• S. Borst and P. Whiting, "Dynamic rate control algorithms for CDMA throughput optimization," in Proceedings of IEEE Infocom 2001, Alaska, April 2001.
• J.-W. Lee, R. R. Mazumdar, and N. B. Shroff, "Opportunistic power scheduling for dynamic multi-server wireless systems", IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, Vol. 5, No. 6, June 2006, 1506-1515.

Scheduling in multi-hop wireless networks

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• M. J. Neely, E. Modiano, and C. E. Rohrs, "Dynamic Power Allocation and Routing for Time Varying Wireless Networks," in Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM, San Francisco, April 2003.
• R. L. Cruz and A. V. Santhanam, "Optimal Routing, Link Scheduling and Power Control in Multi-hop Wireless Networks," in Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM, San Francisco, April 2003.

Joint congestion control, scheduling and routing in wireless networks

• Xiaojun Lin, Ness B. Shroff and R. Srikant, "A Tutorial on Cross-Layer Optimization in Wireless Networks," to appear in IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, special issue on "Non-Linear Optimization of Communication Systems,'' 2006.
• X. Lin and N. B. Shroff, "Joint Rate Control and Scheduling in Multihop Wireless Networks," in Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Paradise Island, Bahamas, December 2004.
• X. Lin and N. B. Shroff, "The Impact of Imperfect Scheduling on Cross-Layer Rate Control in Multihop Wireless Networks," in Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM, Miami, FL, March 2005.
• A. Eryilmaz and R. Srikant, "Fair Resource Allocation in Wireless Networks Using Queue-length-based Scheduling and Congestion Control," in Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM, Miami, FL, March 2005.
• A. Eryilmaz and R. Srikant, "Joint Congestion Control, Routing and MAC for Stability and Fairness in Wireless Networks," in Proc. International Zurich Seminar on Communications, 2006.
• I. Paschalidis, W. Lai, and D. Starobinski, "Asymptotically Optimal Transmission Policies for Low-Power Wireless Sensor Networks," in Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM, Miami, FL, March 2005.
• M. J. Neely, E. Modiano, and C. Li, "Fairness and Optimal Stochastic Control for Heterogeneous Networks," in Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM, Miami, FL, March 2005.
• M. Johansson and L. Xiao, "Scheduling, Routing and Power Allocation for Fairness in Wireless Networks," in IEEE VTC - Spring, Milan, Italy, May 2004.
• M. Chiang, "Balancing Transport and Physical Layer in Multihope Wireless Networks: Jointly Optimal Congestion and Power Control," IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, vol. 23, no. 1, pp. 104-116, January 2005.
• X. Wang and K. Kar, "Cross-Layer Rate Control for End-to-End Proportional Fairness in Wireless Networks with Random Access," in ACM Mobihoc, Urbana-Champaign,IL, May 2005.
• L. Bui, A. Eryilmaz, R. Srikant, and X. Wu, "Joint congestion control and distributed scheduling in multihop wireless networks with a nodeexclusive interference model," in Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM, 2006.
• M. Chiang, S. H. Low, R. A. Calderbank, and J. C. Doyle, "Layering as Optimization Decomposition," Proceedings of IEEE, December 2006.
• M. J. Neely. Energy Optimal Control for Time Varying Wireless Networks. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 52(2):2915¨C2934, July 2006.

Heterogeneous cellular networks and Inter-cell coordination

• S. Das, H. Viswanathan, and G. Rittenhouse, "Dynamic load balancing through coordinated scheduling in packet data systems," in Proc. IEEE INFOCOM, 2003, pp. 786-796.
• T. Bonald, S. Borst, and A. Proutiere, "Inter-cell scheduling in wireless data networks," in European Wireless Conference, 2005.
• H. Kim, G. de Veciana, X. Yang, and M. Venkatachalam, "Distrbuted alpha-Optimal User Association and Cell Load Balancing in Wireless Networks," IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, January 2010. Submitted.
• K. Son, S. Chong, and G. de Veciana, “Dynamic association for load balancing and interference avoidance in multi-cell networks,” IEEE Trans. Wireless Comm., to appear.
• V. Chandrashekhar and J. G. Andrews "Femtocell Networks: A Survey," IEEE Communications Magazine, vol. 46, no. 9, Sept. 2008, pp. 59-67.
• K. Sundaresan and S. Rangarajan. "Efficient Resource Management in OFDMA Femto Cells", in ACM MobiHoc, May 2009.
• J-H. Yun and K. G. Shin, "CTRL: A Self-Organizing Femtocell Management Architecture for Co-Channel Deployment", in ACM MobiCom, 2010.
• I. Hou and C. S. Chen, "Self-Organized Resource Allocation in LTE Systems with Weighted Proportional Fairness," in IEEE ICC, 2012.
• S. C. Borst, M. G. Markakis, and I. Saniee, "Nonconcave Utility Maximization in Locally Coupled Systems, With Applications to Wireless and Wireline Networks," in IEEE/ACM Trans. on Networking, 2013.

Throughput-Optimal Scheduling based on CSMA

• Libin Jiang and Jean Walrand, "A Distributed CSMA Algorithm for Throughput and Utility Maximization in Wireless Networks," to appear in IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking.
• J. Ni, B. Tan and R. Srikant, "Q-CSMA: Queue length-based CSMA/CA algorithms for achieving maximum throughput and low delay in wireless networks," in Proc. IEEE INFOCOM Mini-Conference, 2010.
• Libin Jiang, Mathieu Leconte, Jian Ni, R. Srikant, Jean Walrand, "Fast Mixing of Parallel Glauber Dynamics and Low-Delay CSMA Scheduling," [arXiv] (A short version will appear in the Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM Mini-Conference, Shanghai, China, April 2011.)
• M. Lotfinezhad and P. Marbach "Delay Performance of CSMA Policies in Multihop Wireless Networks: A New Perspective," in 2010 Information Theory and Applications (ITA) Workshop, Jan. 31-Feb 5, 2010.
• M. Chen, S. C. Liew, Z. Shao, and C. Kai, "Markov Approximation for Combinatorial Network Optimization," in IEEE INFOCOM, 2010
• P.-K. Huang and X. Lin, "Improving the Delay Performance of CSMA. Algorithms: A Virtual Multi-Channel Approach," in IEEE INFOCOM, 2013.

Data-center resource allocation

• W. Wang, K. Zhu, Lei Ying, J. Tan and L. Zhang, "Map Task Scheduling in MapReduce with Data Locality: Throughput and Heavy-Traffic Optimality," in Proc. INFOCOM 2013, Turin, Italy, April, 2013.
• S. Maguluri, R. Srikant and Lei Ying, "Stochastic Models of Load Balancing and Scheduling in Cloud Computing Clusters," in Proc. INFOCOM 2012, Orlando, FL, March, 2012.
• Hyunseok Chang, Murali Kodialam, Ramana Rao Kompella, T.V. Lakshman, Myungjin Lee, and Sarit Mukherjee, "Scheduling in MapReduce-like Systems for Fast Completion Time," in the Proceedings of IEEE Infocom, Shanghai, China, April 2011.
• Y. Zheng, N. B. Shroff and P. Sinha, “A New Analytical Technique for Designing Provably Efficient MapReduce Schedulers,” IEEE INFOCOM’13, Turin, Italy, Apr. 2013.

Energy-aware data-center operations

• Minghong Lin, Adam Wierman, Lachlan L. H. Andrew and Eno Thereska, "Dynamic right-sizing for power-proportional data centers," in Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM, 2011
• Zhenhua Liu, Minghong Lin, Adam Wierman, Steven H. Low, and Lachlan L.H. Andrew, "Geographical load balancing with renewables," in ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review, Volume 39 Issue 3, December 2011, Pages 62-66.
• T. Lu and M. Chen, "Simple and Effective Dynamic Provisioning for Power-Proportional Data Centers," in Proceedings of the 46th Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems (CISS), Princeton, NJ, US, March 21 - 23, 2012.

Resource allocation and demand response in smart electrical grid

• L. Gan, U. Topcu, and S. Low, "Optimal Decentralized Protocol for Electric Vehicle Charging," IEEE Trans. on Power Systems, 2011.
• M. J. Neely, A. S. Tehrani, and A. G. Dimakis, "Efficient algorithms for renewable energy allocation to delay tolerant consumers," in Smart Grid Communications (SmartGridComm), 2010 First IEEE International Conference on. IEEE, 2010, pp. 549-554.
• S. Chen, P. Sinha, and N. B. Shroff, "Scheduling heterogeneous delay tolerant tasks in smart grid with renewable energy," in Decision and Control (CDC), 2012 IEEE 51st Annual Conference on. IEEE, 2012, pp. 1130-1135.
• M. Roozbehani, M. A. Dahleh, and S. K. Mitter, "Volatility of power grids under real-time pricing," Power Systems, IEEE Transactions on, vol. 27, no. 4, pp. 1926-1940, 2012.
• O. Dalkilic, A. Eryilmaz, and X. Lin, "Stable real-time pricing and scheduling for serving opportunistic users with deferrable loads." in Allerton, 2013, pp. 1200-1207.
• L. Lu, J. Tu, C. Chau, M. Chen, and X. Lin, "Online Energy Generation Scheduling for Microgrids with Intermittent Energy Sources and Co-Generation," in Proceedings of ACM SIGMETRICS, Pittsburgh, PA, US, June 17 - 21, 2013.
• S. Zhao, X. Lin, and M. Chen, "Peak-Minimizing Online EV Charging," in Proceedings of the 51st Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing (Allerton 2013), Urbana, Illinois, USA, October 1 - 5, 2013.
• L. Chen and S. You, "Reverse and Forward Engineering of Frequency Control in Power Networks," in Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 2014.
• Dimitris Bertsimas, Eugene Litvinov, Xu Andy Sun, Jinye Zhao, and Tongxin Zheng, "Adaptive Robust Optimization for the Security Constrained Unit Commitment Problem," in IEEE Trans on Power Systems, Vol. 28, No. 1, FEBRUARY 2013.
• Libin Jiang and Steve Low, "Multi-period optimal energy procurement and demand response in smart grid with uncertain supply," in Proceedings of IEEE CDC, December 2011.