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Congestion control

    Journal papers

    1. R. J. La and V. Anantharam, "Utility-based rate control in the Internet for elastic traffic," IEEE/ACM Trans. on Networking (TON), 10(2):272-286, Apr. 2002.
    2. R. J. La, "Instability of a tandem network and its propagation under RED," IEEE Trans. on Automatic Control (TAC), 49(6):1006-1011, Jun. 2004.
    3. P. Ranjan, E. H. Abed, and R. J. La, "Nonlinear instabilities in TCP-RED," IEEE/ACM Trans. on Networking (TON), 12(6):1079-1092, Dec. 2004. 
    4. P. Tinnakornsrisuphap and R. J. La, "Characterization of queue fluctuations in probabilistic AQM mechanisms,", Performance Evaluation Review, Special Issue, 32(1):283-94, Jun. 2004 (also proceedings of ACM Sigmetrics, 2004). 
    5. P. Ranjan, R. J. La, and E. H. Abed, "Characterization of global stability conditions for rate control with an arbitrary communication delay," IEEE/ACM Trans. on Networking (TON), 14(1):94-107, Feb. 2006.  
    6. P. Tinnakornsrisuphap and R. J. La, "Asymptotic behavior of heterogeneous TCP flows and RED gateway," IEEE/ACM Trans. on Networking (TON), 14(1):108-120, Feb. 2006.  
    7. R. J. La and P. Ranjan, "Stability of a rate control system with averaged feedback and network delay," Automatica, 42(1):1817-1820, Oct. 2006.  
    8. R. J. La, and P. Ranjan, "Asymptotic stability of a rate control system with communication delays," IEEE Trans. on Automatic Control (TAC), 52(10):1920-1925, Oct. 2007.  
    9. R. J. La and P. Ranjan, "Convergence of dual algorithm with arbitrary communication delays," SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics (SIAP), 68(5):1247-1267, 2008.  

    Conference papers

    1. J. Mo, R. J. La, V. Anantharam and J. Walrand, "Analysis and comparison of TCP Reno and Vegas," IEEE Infocom 1999
    2. R. J. La and V. Anantharam, "Window-based congestion control with heterogeneous users," IEEE Infocom 2001
    3. R. J. La, " Fluid-model for window-based congestion control," Winter Simulation Conference 2001
    4. P. Ranjan, E. H. Abed and R. J. La "Nonlinear instabilities of TCP-RED," IEEE Infocom 2002
    5. P. Ranjan,, R. J. La and E. H. Abed, "Bifurcations of TCP and UDP under RED," MED 2002
    6. R. J. La, P. Ranjan and E. H. Abed, "Nonlinearity of TCP and instability with RED," SPIE ITCom 2002
    7. R. J. La, P. Ranjan and E. H. Abed, "Feedback control of RED," Annual Allerton Conference, 2002
    8. R. J. La, "Instability of a tandem network and its propagation under RED," IEEE ICC 2003
    9. P. Ranjan, R. J. La and E. H. Abed, "Rate control with communication delay and trade-offs," Annual Allerton Conference, 2003
    10. R. J. La, P. Ranjan and E. H. Abed, "Analysis of ARED," 18th ITC, 2003.
    11. P. Tinnakornsrisuphap, R. J. La and A. M. Makowski, "Modeling TCP traffic with session dynamics- many sources asymptotics under ECN/RED gateways," 18th ITC, 2003.
    12. P. Tinnakornsrisuphap, S. Vanichpun, and R. J. La, "Dynamic resource allocation of GPS queues with leaky buckets," IEEE Globecom 2003
    13. P. Tinnakornsrisuphap and R. J. L, "Limiting model of control of ECN/RED under a large number of heterogeneous TCP flows," IEEE CDC 2003
    14. P. Ranjan, E. H. Abed and R. J. La, "Communication delay and instability in rate-controlled networks," IEEE CDC 2003
    15. P. Ranjan, R. J. La and E. H. Abed, "Washout filter-aided RED control," ACC, Boston, MA, 2004
    16. P. Ranjan, R. J. La and E. H. Abed, "Global stability with a state-dependent delay in rate control," IFAC TDS, Belgium, 2004
    17. R. J. La, P. Ranjan and E. H. Abed, "Global stability conditions for rate control with arbitrary communication delays," IEEE CDC, 2004
    18. R. J. La, P. Ranjan and E. H. Abed, "Global stability conditions for rate control of discretized model with communication delays," IEEE Globecom, 2004
    19. P. Ranjan, R. J. La and E. H. Abed, "Global stability in the presence of distributed communication delays," ACC, 2005
    20. R. J. La and P. Ranjan, "Asymptotic stability of a primal algorithm with a finite communication delay," Proc. of the 45th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), San Diego (CA), Dec. 2006.
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    Book chapter

    1. P. Ranjan, E. H. Abed, and R. J. La, "Nonlinear dynamic phenomena in Internet protocols," in Complex Dynamics in Communication Networks, Springer Series on Complexity, edited by Ljupco Kocarev and Gabor Vattay, April 2005.

    Technical report

    1. R. J. La, J. Walrand and V. Ananatharam, "Issues in TCP Vegas," Technical Report, ERL, UC Berkeley, 2000
Game theory and network pricing

    Journal papers

    1. R. J. La, and V. Anantharam, "A game-theoretic look at the Gaussian multiaccess channel," DIMACS Series in Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science, Vol. 66 (Advances in Network Information Theory), pp. 87-106, edited by P. Gupta, G. Kramer, and A. J. van Wijngaarden, 2004.
    2. R. J. La and V. Anantharam, "Optimal routing control: repeated game approach," IEEE Trans. on Automatic Control (TAC), 47(3):437-450, Mar. 2002.

    Conference papers

    1. R. J. La and V. Anantharam, "Optimal routing control: game theoretic approach", IEEE CDC 1997
    2. R. J. La and V. Anantharam, "Network pricing using a game theoretic approach," IEEE CDC 1999
    3. R. J. La and V. Anantharam, "Charge-sensitive TCP and rate control in the Internet," IEEE Infocom 2000
    4. S. H. Chun and R. J. La, "Auction mechanism for spectrum allocation and profit sharing," GameNets, May. 2009.  

Wireless networks

    Journal papers

    1. Y. Han, R. J. La, A. M. Makowski, and S. Lee, "Distribution of path durations in mobile ad-hoc networks -- Palm's Theorem to the rescue," Special Issue of Computer Networks Journal on Network Modeling and Simulation, edited by P. R. Kumar and J. Hou, 50(12):1887-1900, Aug. 2006. 
    2. T. Ren and R. J. La, "Downlink beamforming algorithms with inter-cell interference in cellular networks," IEEE Trans. on Wireless Communications (TWC), 5(10):2814-2823, Oct. 2006.  
    3. R. J. La and Y. Han, "Distribution of path durations in mobile ad-hoc networks and path selection," IEEE/ACM Trans. on Networking (TON), 15(5):993-1006, Oct. 2007.  
    4. R. J. La, "Distributional convergence of inter-meeting times under generalized Hybrid Random Walk mobility model," submitted to IEEE Trans. on Mobile Computing (TMC), Jan. 2008.  
    5. R. J. La and E. Seo, "Expected routing overhead in mobile ad-hoc networks with flat geographic routing," submitted to IEEE Trans. on Mobile Computing (TMC), Sep. 2008.  

    Conference papers

    1. R. Agrawal, A. Bedekar, R. J. La and V. Subramanian, "C3WPF scheduler for GPRS/EDGE," ITCom 2001
    2. R. Agrawal, A. Bedekar, R. J. La and V. Subramanian, "Class and channel condition based weighted proportional fair scheduler," 17th ITC, 2001.
    3. T. Ren, R. J. La and L. Tassiulas, "Optimal transmission scheduling with base station antenna array in cellular networks," IEEE Infocom 2004
    4. Y. Han, R. J. La and A. M. Makowski, "Distribution of path durations in mobile ad-hoc networks -- Palm's theorem at work," 16th ITC Specialist Seminar, Belgium, 2004
    5. Y. Han, R. J. La and T. Ren, "Asymptotic behavior of earliest-deadline-first scheduling with a large number of flows," IEEE CDC, 2004
    6. T. Ren and R. J. La, "Downlink beamforming algorithms with inter-cell interference in cellular networks," IEEE Infocom, 2005. 
    7. Y. Han, R. J. La and H. Zhang, "Path selection in mobile ad-hoc networks and distribution of path duration," IEEE Infocom, 2006

Traffic engineering

    Journal papers

    1. T. Guven, R. J. La, M. A. Shayman, B. Bhattacharjee, "Measurement based optimal routing on overlay architectures for unicast sessions" Special Issue of Computer Networks Journal on Network Modeling and Simulation, edited by P. R. Kumar and J. Hou, 50(12):1938-1951, Aug. 2006. 
    2. A. Rawat, R. J. La, S. I. Marcus and M. A. Shayman, "Grooming multicast traffic in unidirectional SONET/WDM rings," IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC), 25(6):70-83, Aug. 2007.  
    3. T. Guven, R. J. La, M. A. Shayman and B. Bhattacharjee, "A unified framework for multipath routing for unicast and multicast traffic," IEEE/ACM Trans. on Networking (TON), 16(5):1038-1051, Oct. 2008.  
    4. V. Sharma, K. Kar, R. J. La, and L. Tassiulas, "Dynamic network provisioning for time-varying traffic," Journal of Communications and Networks (JCN), 9(8):408-418, Dec. 2007.  

    Conference Papers

    1. K.-T. Ku, S. Phuvoravan, B. Bhattacharjee, R. J. La, M. Shayman and H. S. Chang, "On the use of flow migration for handling short-term overloads," IEEE Globecom 2003
    2. T. Guven, R. J. La, M. Shayman and B. Bhattacharjee, "Measurement based optimal multi-path routing," IEEE Infocom 2004
    3. P. Fard, R. J. La, K. Lee, S. I. Marcus and M. A. Shayman, "Reconfiguration of MPLS/WDM networks using simulation-based Markov decision process," CISS, Johns Hopkins, 2005.
    4. V. Tabatabaee, B. Bhattacharjee, R. J. La and M. A. Shayman, "Differentiated traffic engineering for QoS provisioning," IEEE Infocom, 2005
    5. T. Guven, R. J. La, M. A. Shayman and B. Bhattarcharjee, "Measurement based multipath multicast," IEEE Global Internet Symposium (in conjunction with) Infocom, 2005. 
    6. V. Sharma, K. Kar and R. J. La, "Adaptive dimensioning of bandwidth tunnels for time-varying real-time traffic," IEEE ICC, 2005
    7. V. Sharma, K. Kar, R. J. La and L. Tassiulas, "Dynamic network provisioning for time-varying traffic," 19th ITC, 2005
    8. A. Kashyap, V. Tabatabaee, B. Bhattacharjee, R. J. La and M. A. Shayman, "Single-path routing of time-varying traffic," IEEE Globecom, San Francisco (CA), Nov. 2006.  
    9. Y. Xin, M. A. Shayman, R. J. La and S. I. Marcus, "Reconfiguration of survivable MPLS/WDM networks," IEEE Globecom, San Francisco (CA), Nov. 2006  
    10. V. Tabatabaee, A. Kashyap, S. Bhattacharjee, R. J. La and M. A. Shayman, "Robust routing with unknown traffic matrices," IEEE Infocom, Anchorage (AK), May 2007.  
    11. A. Rawat, M. A. Shayman, R. J. La, and S. I. Marcus, "Minimum wavelength assignment for multicast traffic in all-optical WDM trees," IEEE BROADNETS, Sep. 2008.  
Others

  1. J.-H. Yoo, R. J. La and A. M. Makowski, "Convergence results for ant routing," CISS, Princeton University, NJ, 2004