Publications

Peer-to-peer

• A. Ferragut, F. Paganini."Content dynamics in P2P systems from queueing and fluid perspectives", 24th International Teletraffic Congress, Krakow, Poland, Sep. 2012.
  
• F. Paganini, A. Ferragut "PDE models for population and residual work applied to peer-to-peer networks", Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, Princeton, NJ, Apr. 2012.
  
• A. Ferragut, F. Kozynski, F. Paganini. "Dynamics of content propagation in BitTorrent-like P2P file exchange systems", IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Orlando, FL, Dec. 2011.
  
• F. Kozynski, A. Ferragut, F. Paganini, "Reducción de oscilaciones en BitTorrent mediante mecanismos de unchoking preferencial", Informatica na Educacao: teoria & prática, Vol. 14, No. 1, pp. 29-41, 2011. [pdf]. This is an extended version of the conference article presented in CITA 2011.
  

Wireless networks

• M. Zubeldía, A. Ferragut, F. Paganini "Averting speed inefficiency in rate diverse WiFi networks through queueing and aggregation", IEEE Globecom 2012, Anaheim, CA, Dec. 2012.
• A. Ferragut, F. Paganini "Resource allocation over multirate wireless networks: A Network Utility Maximization perspective", Computer Networks, Vol. 55(11), pp. 2658-2674, Aug. 2011.
  
• A. Ferragut, F. Paganini. "Network utility maximization for overcoming inefficiency in multirate wireless networks", 8th Intl. Symposium on Modeling and Optimization of Mobile, Ad-Hoc and Wireless Networks, WiOpt'10, Avignon, France, Jun. 2010.
  
• A. Ferragut, F. Paganini. "A connection level model for IEEE 802.11 cells", IFIP/ACM Latin American Networking Conference, Pelotas, Brazil, Sep. 2009. Received one of the two Best Paper Awards of the conference.
  
• M. López, F. Paganini, "A mechanism for the moderation of non-cooperative nodes in wireless local area networks" Jornadas de Sistemas de Telecomunicaciones, Quito, Ecuador, May 2008. Received the Best Paper Award of the conference.
  

Connection-level dynamics in networks

• F. Paganini, A.Tang, A. Ferragut, L. Andrew, "Network Stability under Alpha Fair Bandwidth Allocation with General File Size Distribution", IEEE Trans. on Automatic Control, Vol. 57(3), pp. 579-591, Mar. 2012.
  
• A. Ferragut, F. Paganini. "Connection-level dynamics in networks: stability and control", IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Atlanta, GA, Dec. 2010.
  
• A. Ferragut, F. Paganini. "User-centric network fairness through connection-level control", IEEE Infocom Miniconference, San Diego, CA, Mar. 2010.
  
• F. Paganini, K. Tang, A. Ferragut, L. Andrew. "Stability of networks under general file size distribution with alpha fair rate allocation", Allerton Conference 09, UIUC, IL, Sep. 2009.
  
• A.Ferragut, F. Paganini, "Utility based admission control: a fluid limit analysis", Poster session, Stochastic Networks Conference, París, France, Jun. 2008.
  
• A.Ferragut, F. Paganini, "Achieving network stability and user fairness through admission control of TCP connections" Conf. on Information Sciences and Systems, Princeton, NJ, Mar. 2008.
  

Pricing in networks

• P. Belzarena, F. Paganini, A. Ferragut. "Optimizing revenue for bandwidth auctions over networks with time reservations", Computer Networks, Vol. 55(9), pp. 2289-2302, May 2011.
  
• P. Belzarena, A. Ferragut, F. Paganini "Network Bandwidth Allocation via Distributed Auctions with Time Reservations ", IEEE Infocom Miniconference, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Apr. 2009.
  
• P. Belzarena, A.Ferragut, F. Paganini, "Auctions for resource allocation in overlay networks", NET-COOP '08, 2nd Workshop on Network Control and Optimization, Paris, France, Sep. 2008.
  

Cross-layer network optimization

• J. Saibene, R. Lempert, F. Paganini "An implementation of optimal dynamic load balancing based on multipath IP routing", IEEE Globecom 2010, Miami, FL, Dec. 2010.
  
• D. Feijer, F. Paganini "Stability of primal-dual connection dynamics and applications to network optimization", Automatica, Vol. 46(12), pp. 1974-1981, Dec. 2010.
  
• F. Paganini, E. Mallada, "A unified approach to congestion control and node-based multipath routing", IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Vol. 17, No. 5, pp. 1413-1426, Oct. 2009.
  
• D. Feijer, F. Paganini "Krasovskii's method in the stability of network control", American Control Conference, St. Louis, MO, June 2009.
  
• E. Mallada, F. Paganini, "Stability of node-based multipath routing and dual congestion control", IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Cancún, Mexico, Dec. 2008.
  
• E. Mallada, F. Paganini, "Optimal congestion control with multipath routing using TCP-FAST and a variant of RIP", NET-COOP 2007, Avignon, Francia, Jun 2007. Also in Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4465, Springer-Verlag, Berlin-Heidelberg 2007.
  
• F. Paganini, E. Mallada "Congestion pricing for flow control and multipath routing in TCP/IP networks", Congreso Latinoamericano de Investigación Operativa, Montevideo, Uruguay, Nov. 2006.
  
• F. Paganini, "Congestion control with adaptive multipath routing based on optimization", Conf. on Information Sciences and Systems, Princeton, NJ, Mar. 2006.
  

Control theory

• F. Paganini, "Control and economics in networking, via optimization: perspectives from an emerging discipline", European Control Conference, Kos, Greece, Jul. 2007.
  
• P. Monzon, F. Paganini, "Global properties of symmetric coupled oscillators with non complete associated interconnection graph", Congresso Brasileiro de Automatica, Salvador, Brazil, Oct. 2006.