Stochastic Networks Seminar


 The Stochastic Networks Seminar is a weekly series of talks that will be held through the 2001-2002 academic year. It is a cross-disciplinary seminar series that draws from the various groups involved in networking research at Stanford, from the Departments of Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Management Science and Engineering and the Graduate School of Business.

The topics of interest are wide-ranging; including modeling wireline/ wireless networks, switch/ router/ queue-management algorithms, pricing, network measurement, stochastic network theory, etc.  The style will be informal and conducive for presenting work-in-progress. The seminar series is open to everyone.

The following is a reverse chronological list of talks. Enquiries regarding the seminar should be sent to msharma@stanford.edu.


Spring 2001-2002
Date Speaker Title of Talk Details
05/31/02 Gideon Weiss Optimal control of deterministic fluid networks Abstract Fri 2-3 pm, Room 202, Packard EE Building 
05/24/02 Eytan Modiano Algorithms for resource allocation and congestion control in next generation satellite networksAbstract Fri 2-3 pm, Room 202, Packard EE Building 
05/17/02 Baris Ata Heavy Traffic Analysis of Open Processing Networks: Asymptotic Optimality of Discrete Review Policies with Complete Resource Pooling Abstract Fri 2-3 pm, Room 202, Packard EE Building 
05/10/02 Sunil Kumar Brownian Control Problems Without Pathwise Solutions: The Criss-Cross Network Abstract Fri 2-3 pm, Room 202, Packard EE Building 
05/03/02 Ruth Williams Dynamic Scheduling of a Parallel Server System with Complete Resource Pooling Abstract Fri 2-3 pm, Room 202, Packard EE Building 
04/26/02 J. Michael Harrison Heavy Traffic Resource Pooling in Parallel-Server Systems Abstract Fri 2-3 pm, Room 202, Packard EE Building 
04/19/02 Damon Wischik Input-queued switches in heavy traffic Abstract Slides Fri 2-3 pm, Room 202, Packard EE Building 
04/12/02 --- No talk this Friday ---
04/05/02 Rayadurgam Srikant Scheduling in fading broadcast channels Abstract Fri 2-3 pm, Room 202, Packard EE Building 

Winter 2001-2002
Date Speaker Title of Talk Details
03/15/02 Amy Ward Performance Measure Approximations for GI/GI/1 Queues with Reneging Abstract Fri 2-3 pm, Room 202, Packard EE Building 
03/08/02 Balaji Prabhakar An overview of randomized algorithms in switching and questions about their performance Abstract Fri 2-3 pm, Room 202, Packard EE Building 
03/01/02 Sundar Iyer Internet Switches and Routers - II Abstract Fri 2-3 pm, Room 202, Packard EE Building 
02/22/02 Nick McKeown Internet Switches and Routers - I Abstract Slides Fri 2-3 pm, Room 202, Packard EE Building 
02/15/02 --- No talk this Friday ---
02/08/02 Glenn Vinnicombe Robust control for the Internet and other large scale interconnections Abstract Fri 2-3 pm, Room 202, Packard EE Building 
02/01/02 Steven Low Equilibrium and Dynamics of TCP/AQM Abstract Fri 2-3 pm, Room 202, Packard EE Building 
01/25/02 Fernando Paganini Scalable Laws for Stable Network Congestion Control Abstract Fri 2-3 pm, Room 204, Packard EE Building 
01/18/02 Frank Kelly Internet congestion control: recent advances and current issues Abstract Fri 2-3 pm, Room 202, Packard EE Building 
01/09/02 Michael Mitzenmacher Dynamic Models for File Sizes and Double Pareto Distributions  Abstract Wed 4-5 pm, Room 202, Packard EE Building 

Fall 2001-2002 
Date Speaker Title of Talk Details
11/21/01 Alan Bain Flow Control: From stochastic models to Differential Equations  Abstract Wed 2:30-3:30 pm, Room 204, Packard EE Building 
11/14/01 J. Michael Harrison Brownian Networks and Makespan Problems
Abstract
Wed 2:30-3:30 pm, Room 204, Packard EE Building 
11/07/01 Devavrat Shah Simplifying Input-Queued Switch Scheduling
Abstract
Wed 2:30-3:30 pm, Room 204, Packard EE Building 
10/24/01 Gideon Weiss On job shop scheduling and queues with infinite virtual buffers  Abstract Wed 2:30-3:30 pm, Room 204, Packard EE Building 
10/17/01 Balaji Prabhakar Simple, robust network algorithms
Abstract
Wed 4-5 pm, Room 204, Packard EE Building 
10/10/01 Frank Kelly TCP and Active Queue Management 
Abstract
Wed 4-5 pm, Room 204, Packard EE Building 
10/03/01 Damon Wischik Issues in Modelling Optical Networks Abstract Slides Wed 3-4 pm, Room 204, Packard EE Building