ICST Transactions on Network Optimization and Control
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 including 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
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)
EIC's keywords
Networks, Control, Optimization, Communications, Traffic, Computer Networks, Scheduling, Routing, Flow Control, Energy networks