Network Modeling and Resource Allocation: Publications

Opportunistic Networks: Content Distribution and Forwarding

• S.H. Masood, A. Raza, and M. J. Coates, Content Distribution Strategies in Opportunistic Networks , Technical Report: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, McGill University, Dec. 2011.

Peer-to-peer Networks and BitTorrent

• R.W. Thommes and M.J. Coates, Epidemiological modelling of peer-to-peer viruses and pollution, in Proc. IEEE Infocom, Barcelona, Spain, April 2006.
• R.W. Thommes and M.J. Coates, BitTorrent fairness: analysis and improvements, in Proc. Workshop Internet, Telecom. and Signal Proc., Noosa, Australia, Dec. 2005.

Video-on-Demand Networks

• F. Thouin and M.J. Coates, Equipment allocation in video-on-demand network deployments, ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing Communications and Applications, vol. 5, no. 1, Feb. 2009.
• F. Thouin and M.J. Coates, Video-on-demand server selection and placement, in Proc. International Teletraffic Congress, Ottawa, Canada, June 2007.
• F. Thouin and M.J. Coates, Video-on-demand networks: Design approaches and future challenges, in IEEE Network, March/April 2007.
• F. Thouin, D. Goodwill and M.J. Coates, Video-on-demand equipment allocation, in Proc. IEEE International Symposium on Network Computing and Applications (NCA), Boston, MA, July 2006.

Scheduling in Photonic Networks

• N. Saberi and M.J. Coates, Scheduling in overlaid star all-photonic networks with large propagation delays, Photonic Network Communications, vol. 17, no. 2, April 2009, pp 157-169.
• N. Saberi and M.J. Coates, Minimum rejection scheduling in all-photonic networks , in Proc. Int. Conf. Broadband Communications, Networks and Systems (BROADNETS), San Jose, CA, Oct. 2006.
• N. Saberi and M.J. Coates, Fair Matching Algorithm: Fixed-length frame scheduling in all-photonic networks, in Proc. IASTED Int. Conf. Optical Communication Systems and Networks, Banff, Alberta, Canada, July 2006.
• X. Liu, N. Saberi, M.J. Coates and L.G. Mason, A comparison between time slot scheduling approaches for all-photonic networks , in Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. on Information, Comm. and Signal Proc. (ICICS), Bangkok, Thailand, Dec. 2005.

Sensor/Actuator networks and Causal Effect

• F. Thouin, R.W. Thommes and M.J. Coates, Optimal actuation strategies for sensor/actuator networks, in Proc. International Workshop on Advances in Sensor Networks (IWASN), San Jose, CA, July 2006.
• F. Thouin, R.W. Thommes and M.J. Coates, Optimal actuation strategies for sensor/actuator networks, Work-in-Progress Extended Abstract, in Proc. Int. Symp. Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN), Nashville, TN, April 2006
• M.J. Coates, Evaluating causal relationships in wireless sensor/actuator networks, in Proc. IEEE ICASSP, Philadelphia, PA, Apr. 2005.
• G. Ing and M.J. Coates, Actuator networks: distributed evaluation of causal effect, in Proc. Asilomar Conf. Signals, Systems, and Computers, Pacific Grove, California, Nov. 2004.
• M.J. Coates and I. Psaromiligkos, Evaluating average causal effect using wireless sensor networks, in Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. Acoustics, Speech and Signal Proc. (ICASSP), Montreal, Quebec, May 2004.