Transport protocols must accommodate diverse application needs as well as network requirements. As a result, TCP has evolved over time with new congestion control algorithms such as support for generalized AIMD, background flows, and multipath. On the other hand, explicit congestion control algorithms have shown to be more efficient. However, they are inherently more rigid because they rely on ...

Using market mechanisms for resource allocation in distributed systems is not a new idea, nor is it one that has caught on in practice or with a large body of computer science research. Yet, projects that use markets for distributed resource allocation recur every few years [1, 2, 3], and a new generation of research is exploring market-based resource allocation mechanisms [4, 5, 6, 7, 8] for d...

This paper presents a microeconomics-based equilibratory approach to a distributed resource allocation problem in a multi-agent system. In a multi-agent system, each agent has its own strategy to achieve its own objective. When a global objective function is given, a framework for reaching an overall desired state needs to be established. We call this type of framework Coordinated Balancing . S...

Recent advances in wireless communications and digital electronics have enabled rapid development of a variety of wireless network technologies. The undeniable popularity of wireless network is due to its ubiquity and convenience, which is appreciated by the users. In this dissertation, we study the problem of resource allocation in multihop wireless networks (so called ad hoc networks). A wire...

The interaction between instruction scheduling and register allocation has signiicant impact on the quality of code generated, particularly in compilers targeting ne grain parallel architectures. The problem results from the fact that instruction scheduling and register allocation have connicting goals. Instruction scheduling tries to maximize parallelism by scheduling as many instructions as p...

6.1 Introduction Wireless networks enable ubiquitous information and computational resource access , and become a popular networking solution. Recently, wireless mesh networks (WMN) [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7] have attracted increasing attention and deployment as a high-performance and low-cost solution to last-mile broadband Internet access. In this chapter, we study the problem of resource allocati...

This paper considers situations characterized by a common-pool resource, which needs to be divided among agents. Each of the agents has some claim on this pool and an individual reward function for assigned resources. This paper analyzes not only the problem of maximizing the total joint reward, but also the allocation of these rewards among the agents. Analyzing these situations a new class of...

The rapid rise in popularity of multimedia applications, such as VoIP, IPTV and Video Conferencing, intensifies the need to consider resource management for user satisfaction. Furthermore, improving Quality of Experience (QoE) in Software Defined Networks (SDNs) services is one of the important issues to be addressed by provisioning optimum resource management. In this paper, resource allocatio...