Future Autonomic Cooperative Networks

Cooperative Co-Evolving Neural Networks for Robosoccer Simulation

Data ubiquity in autonomic wireless mesh networks

The ability to compute anywhere anytime is increasingly becoming a necessity. Wireless mesh networks (WMNs) have become a network of choice to provide broadband wireless Internet connectivity where wired infrastructure is uneconomical or impractical to deploy. Their support for inexpensive broadband Internet services has made them even more attractive and increased users’ demand. WMNs suffer fr...

Performance Analysis of Wireless Cooperative Networks with Iterative Incremental Relay Selection

In this paper, an iterative incremental relay selection (IIRS) scheme is considered for wireless cooperative networks in order to increase the reliability of transmission. Different from the conventional incremental relay selection which incrementally selects a best relay for only one iteration; the IIRS scheme iteratively applies the incremental relaying and relay selection processes. To evalu...

Coalitional Game Theory for Communication Networks: A Tutorial

Game theoretical techniques have recently become prevalent in many engineering applications, notably in communications. With the emergence of cooperation as a new communication paradigm, and the need for self-organizing, decentralized, and autonomic networks, it has become imperative to seek suitable game theoretical tools that allow to analyze and study the behavior and interactions of the nod...

The self-growing concept - A novel framework developed by the FP7 CONSERN project

The CONSERN project (COoperative aNd Self growing Energy awaRe Networks) develops the novel SelfGrowing concept. It is part of the European Commission’s FP7 research initiative focusing on the following two major research directions: i) Solutions for optimised energy and power consumption in a small scale, purpose-driven network through balancing autonomic and cooperative approaches and ii) mec...