11. ICST Transactions on Network Optimization and Control

Editor in chief:  
Dr. Eitan Altman
Senior Researcher
INRIA, France
Eitan.Altman@sophia.inria.fr

Co-Editor in Chief, Editor of Special Issues:     
Dr. Daniele Miorandi
Area Head, Pervasive Computing and Communications Area
Create-Net, Italy
daniele.miorandi@create-net.org

Scope:
This new journal aims at developing and fostering research on control and optimization in networks, ranging from control and optimization of general stochastic networks to applications to computer networks, social networks, communication networks and road traffic networks. These themes have been traditionally handled by separate research communities, but share as common denominator a number of tools, techniques and approaches. The Transactions on Network Optimization and Control  (TNOC) aim at representing a venue for such communities to present their results and exchange innovative outcomes of archival value, whose applicability goes potentially beyond the boundaries of single applications.
Both papers on theoretical tools that are applicable to the control and optimization of networks as well as specific applications thereof are sought. Examples of more specific applications include lower-layer functionalities in mobile wireless networks, game theoretic approaches to access control, cooperation, competition and adversary capacities in diverse environments, routing for computational grids, resource optimization in cloud computing and overlays. The journal is interested in particular in distributed and decentralized aspects, in team and game theoretical (both cooperative and non-cooperative) models, in learning, estimation, filtering and adaptive control in networks.

The main themes for the journal include but are not restricted to:

  • Optimization and control theoretical tools in networking
  • Game theoretic analysis of networks, incentive pricing, inducing collaboration
  • Flow and congestion control in networks
  • Hierarchical optimization in networks
  • Resources allocation and their optimization
  • Scheduling transmissions in networks
  • Control of queuing networks
  • Optimization of wireless networks
  • Optimization and control theoretical approaches to transport protocols
  • Computational grids
  • Competitive routing
  • Traffic assignment problem
  • Optimization and control of social and biological networks
  • Control of complex networks
  • Optimization and control of energy supply and distribution networks

EIC’s keywords:
Networks, Control, Optimization, Communications, Traffic, Computer Networks, Scheduling, Routing, Flow Control, Energy networks

Editor in chief:  
Dr. Eitan Altman
Senior Researcher
INRIA, France
Eitan.Altman@sophia.inria.fr

Co-Editor in Chief, Editor of Special Issues:     
Dr. Daniele Miorandi
Area Head, Pervasive Computing and Communications Area
Create-Net, Italy
daniele.miorandi@create-net.org

Since 1990, Dr. E. Altman has been a researcher at INRIA (National research institute in informatics and control) in Sophia-Antipolis, France.  He has served on the editorial boards of several scientific journals: WINET, COMNET, JDEDS, SIAM (SICON), Stochastic Models, and Journal of Economy Dynamic and Control (JEDC).  He has been plenary speaker, (co)chairman of the program committee and general chair of various international conferences. He has received the best paper award in several conferences. His main interests are application of control, game theory and bio-inspired paradigms to networking.

Daniele Miorandi is the head of the Pervasive Computing and Communications Area at CREATE-NET, Trento, Italy. He received a PhD in Communications Engineering from Univ. of Padova, Italy, in 2005, and a Laurea degree (summa cum lauda) in Communications Engineering from Univ. of Padova, Italy, in 2001. He joined CREATE-NET in Jan. 2005, where he is leading a group working on large-scale distributed networked environments. His research interests include bio-inspired approaches to networking and service provisioning in large-scale computing systems, modelling, optimization and performance evaluation of wireless networks, wireless extensions of fieldbus systems, prototyping of wireless mesh solutions. He is serving on the Steering Committee of various international events (WiOpt, Autonomics, ValueTools), for some of which he was a co-founder (Autonomics and ValueTools).

Advisory Board and/or Area Editors:

Control and Game Theory:
Prof Tamer Basar (UIUC), Prof. Nahum Shimkin (Technion, Israel), Prof  Lorn Mason (Univ McGill, Montreal), Prof Eilon Solan (Tel-Aviv Univ)

Optimization of Computer and Communication Networks (scheduling, flow control, routing):
Prof. Asu Ozdaglar (MIT, Boston), Prof. Hiroyuki Ohsaki (Osaka Univ, Japan),
Prof. Vivek Borkar (TIFR Mumbai, India), Prof. José Aguilar (Univ de los Andes, Mérida, Venezuela)

Communication Theory
Prof. Merouane Debbah (Supelec, France)

Combinatorial Optimization in Networks
Dr. Jean Claude Bermond (CNRS, France)

Road traffic networks:
Dr. Laura Wynter (IBM)

Social Networks
Dr. Konstantin Avratchenkov (INRIA, France)