Continuous approximation of collective system behaviour: A tutorial

L Bortolussi, J Hillston, D Latella, M Massink - Performance Evaluation, 2013 - Elsevier
In this paper we present an overview of the field of deterministic approximation of Markov
processes, both in discrete and continuous times. We will discuss mean field approximation …

Optimizing information freshness in wireless networks under general interference constraints

R Talak, S Karaman, E Modiano - … on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
Age of information (AoI) is a recently proposed metric for measuring information freshness.
AoI measures the time that elapsed since the last received update was generated. We …

Planning roadside infrastructure for information dissemination in intelligent transportation systems

O Trullols, M Fiore, C Casetti, CF Chiasserini… - Computer …, 2010 - Elsevier
We consider an intelligent transportation system where a given number of infrastructured
nodes (called Dissemination Points, DPs) have to be deployed for disseminating information …

Improving age of information in wireless networks with perfect channel state information

R Talak, S Karaman, E Modiano - IEEE/ACM Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Age of information (AoI), defined as the time that elapsed since the last received update was
generated, is a newly proposed metric to measure the timeliness of information updates in a …

The impact of node selfishness on multicasting in delay tolerant networks

Y Li, G Su, DO Wu, D Jin, L Su… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Due to the uncertainty of transmission opportunities between mobile nodes, delay tolerant
networks (DTNs) exploit the opportunistic forwarding mechanism. This mechanism requires …

Scalable differential analysis of process algebra models

M Tribastone, S Gilmore… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The exact performance analysis of large-scale software systems with discrete-state
approaches is difficult because of the well-known problem of state-space explosion. This …

Message drop and scheduling in DTNs: Theory and practice

A Krifa, C Barakat, T Spyropoulos - IEEE Transactions on …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In order to achieve data delivery in Delay Tolerant Networks (DTN), researchers have
proposed the use of store-carry-and-forward protocols: a node there may store a message in …

Specifying and verifying properties of space

V Ciancia, D Latella, M Loreti, M Massink - … Science: 8th IFIP TC 1/WG 2.2 …, 2014 - Springer
The interplay between process behaviour and spatial aspects of computation has become
more and more relevant in Computer Science, especially in the field of collective adaptive …

Expected values estimated via mean-field approximation are 1/n-accurate

N Gast - Proceedings of the ACM on Measurement and Analysis …, 2017 - dl.acm.org
Mean-field approximation is a powerful tool to study large-scale stochastic systems such as
data-centers--one example being the famous power of two-choice paradigm. It is shown in …

Roadside infrastructure planning scheme for the urban vehicular networks

L Xue, Y Yang, D Dong - Transportation Research Procedia, 2017 - Elsevier
Vehicular ad hoc network (VANET) is an emerging technology for future on-the-road
applications. However, because of the vehicle mobility uncertainty, the temporal network …