2004 STOCHASTIC NETWORKS CONFERENCE
July 18-23, 2004
Lecture Room: 1360

Friday, July 18
08:30
Registration (Room 5345)
Download Talks
09:30 - 09:35

Opening Remarks

09:35 - 10:35
G. Kesidis
Purposeful Mobility for Relaying and Surveillance in
Ad-hoc Sensor Network
10:35 - 11:15

Coffee Break (Room 1221)

11:15 - 12:15
S. Borst
Flow-Level Performance of Channel-Aware Scheduling Algorithms in Wireless Networks
14:30 - 15:30
B. Hajek
Ion Channels, or Stochastic Networks with Charged
Customers
15:30 - 16:00

Coffee Break (Room 1221)

16:00 - 17:00
T. Kurtz
Multiscale Approximations for Stochastic Reaction
Networks


Monday, July 19
09:00 - 10:00
F. Kelly
Flow Level Models of Internet Congestion Control
10:00 - 10:45

Coffee Break (Room 1221)

10:45 - 11:45
R. Williams
Fluid and Brownian Models of Congestion at Flow
Level
14:15 - 15:15
C. Gromoll
Fluid Limit of a Network with Fair Bandwidth Sharing
and General Document Size Distributions
15:15 - 16:00

Coffee Break (Room 1221)

16:00 - 17:00
J. Hassenbein
Instability in Stochastic and Fluid Networks
17:00 - 18:00
Contributed Paper Short Presentations
18:00

Wine and Cheese Reception


Tuesday, July 20, 2004
09:00 - 10:00
L. Tassiulas
Cross-layer Design Issues for Quality of Service
Provisioning in Wireless Networks
10:00 - 10:45

Coffee Break (Room 1221)

10:45 - 11:45
P. Glynn
Distributed Algorithms for Wireless Networks
14:15 - 15:15
P.R. Kumar
Wireless Networks: The World of Protocols
15:15 - 16:00

Coffee Break (Room 1221)

16:00 - 17:00
G. de Veciana
Spatial Models of Ad hoc Wireless and Sensor
Networks: Optimizing for Energy Efficiency


Wednesday, July 21
09:00 - 10:00
M. Harchol-Balter
New Recursive Dimensionality Reduction Techniques
Applied to the Analysis of Multiserver Scheduling
including: Cycle Stealing, Priority Queueing, and
Threshold Policies
10:00 - 11:00
E. Altman
Applications of Stochastic Recursive Equations and
Branching Processes in Queueing Networks with
Stationary Ergodic Driving Sequences
11:00 - 11:15

Coffee Break (Room 1221)

11:15 - 12:15
D. Bertsimas
Robust Optimization: A Tractable Approach to
Optimization under Uncertainty
13:00
Lunch for Stochastic Networks Conference participants (sponsored by Alcatel) at Chez Queux, 158 rue St. Paul
Est (tel: 514-866-5194, ( www.chezqueux.com )


Thursday, July 22
09:00 - 10:00
Z. Liu
One-to-Many TCP Overlay
10:00 - 10:45

Coffee Break (Room 1221)

10:45 - 11:45
B. Prabhakar
Network Processor Algorithms: Design and Analysis
14:00 - 15:00
P. Dupuis
On the Role of an Isaacs Equation in Importance Sampling for Stochastic Networks
15:00 - 15:30

Coffee Break (Room 1221)

15:30 - 16:30
Poster Session
16:30 - 17:30
B. Zwart
Delay Asymptotics in the GI/GI/1 PS Queue


Friday, July 23
(joint activity with Call Centre Workshop)
08:30
Registration for Call Centre Workshop (Room 5345)
09:00 - 10:00
J. M. Harrison
A Method for Staffing Large Call Centers Based on
Stochastic Fluid Models
10:00 - 10:45

Coffee Break (Room 1221)

10:45 - 11:45
A. Zeevi
Design and Control of a Large Call Center: Asymptotic
Analysis Using Two-scale Fluid Limits
14:15 - 15:15
A. Mandelbaum
QED Queues
15:15 - 16:00

Coffee Break (Room 1221)

16:00 - 17:00
M. Armony
Staffing and Routing in Large-Scale Service Systems