Geometric Approximations of Some Aloha-like Stability Regions (2010)
Most bounds on the stability region of Aloha give necessary and sufficient conditions for the stability of an arrival rate vector under a specific contention probability (control) vector. But such...
1 Transmission coordination for ad hoc networks (2010)
Ananth V. Kini, Steven Weber, Fadi Aloul, Nagarajan K
Abstract — AHNs are wireless networks operating without the benefits of network infrastructure (basestations) or centralized control. AHNs working with limited spectrum perform best when...
Energy-Limited vs. Interference-Limited Ad Hoc Network Capacity (2010)
Nihar Jindal, Jeffrey G. Andrews, Steven Weber
Abstract- In a multi-user system in which interference is treated as noise, increasing the power of all transmissions eventually makes thermal noise negligible and causes the network to be...
Multi-antenna Communication in Ad Hoc Networks: Achieving MIMO Gains with SIMO Transmission (2010)
Nihar Jindal, Jeffrey G. Andrews, Steven Weber
The benefit of multi-antenna receivers is investigated in wireless ad hoc networks, and the main finding is that network throughput can be made to scale linearly with the number of receive antennas n...
Optimal Cooperative Relaying Schemes for Improving Wireless Physical Layer Security (2010)
Li, Jiangyuan, Petropulu, Athina P., Weber, Steven
We consider a cooperative wireless network in the presence of one of more eavesdroppers, and exploit node cooperation for achieving physical (PHY) layer based security. Two different cooperation...
Random Access Transport Capacity (2009)
Andrews, Jeffrey G., Weber, Steven, Kountouris, Marios, Haenggi, Martin
We develop a new metric for quantifying end-to-end throughput in multihop wireless networks, which we term random access transport capacity, since the interference model presumes uncoordinated...
1 Longest edge routing on the spatial Aloha graph (2009)
Steven Weber, Nihar Jindal, Radha Krishna Ganti, Martin Haenggi
Abstract — The multihop spatial reuse Aloha (MSR-Aloha) protocol was recently introduced by Baccelli et al., where each transmitter selects the receiver among its feasible next hops that maximizes...
Nihar Jindal, Jeffrey G. Andrews, Steven Weber
Abstract — The benefit of multiple antenna communication is investigated in wireless ad hoc networks, and the primary finding is that throughput can be made to scale linearly with the number of...
Bandwidth partitioning in decentralized wireless networks (2009)
Nihar Jindal, Jeffrey G. Andrews, Senior Member, Steven Weber
This paper addresses the following question, which is of interest in the design of a multiuser decentralized network. Given a total system bandwidth of W Hz and a fixed data rate constraint of R bps...
A World Without the West? Empirical Patterns and Theoretical Implications (2009)
Barma, Naazneen, Chiozza, Giacomo, Ratner, Ely, Weber, Steven
Nihar Jindal, Jeffrey G. Andrews, Steven Weber
Abstract — The benefit of multiple antenna communication is investigated in wireless ad hoc networks, and the primary finding is that throughput can be made to scale linearly with the number of...
The Political Economy of Open Source Software (Part I) (2008)
Editorial Board, Hometown Outsourcing, Wayne Wolf, Steven Weber
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Jindal, Nihar, Andrews, Jeffrey G., Weber, Steven
The benefit of multiple antenna communication is investigated in wireless ad hoc networks, and the primary finding is that throughput can be made to scale linearly with the number of receive antennas...
Transmission capacity: applying stochastic geometry to uncoordinated ad hoc networks (2008)
Weber, Steven, Andrews, Jeffrey G., Jindal, Nihar
This paper summarizes recent contributions on the transmission capacity of ad hoc networks. Although it is notoriously difficult to derive general end-to-end capacity results for ad hoc networks, the...
Bandwidth Partitioning in Decentralized Wireless Networks (2008)
Nihar Jindal, Jeffrey G. Andrews, Senior Member, Steven Weber
This paper addresses the following question, which is of interest in the design of a multiuser decentralized network. Given a total system bandwidth of W Hz and a fixed data rate constraint of R bps...
Communication-Based Motion Planning (2008)
Alex Fridman, Jay Modi, Steven Weber, Moshe Kam
Abstract — The conventional philosophy in designing mobile networks is that network node movement should be independent of network state. However, there are practical situations where movement...
Analysis of gossip performance with copulas (2008)
Steven Weber, Vilas Veeraraghavan
Abstract — We propose a novel framework for analyzing the dynamic performance of a gossip protocol on a graph through the use of copulas. Copulas are a statistical technique that express the joint...
Ad hoc networks: To spread or not to spread (2008)
Jeffrey G. Andrews, Steven Weber, Martin Haenggi
Spread spectrum communication – often called Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) – has been widely adopted over the years for many types interference-challenged wireless communication systems...
Visualization of Resource Allocation in Large-Scale Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (2008)
Alex Fridman, Dan Hennessey, David Breen, Steven Weber, Moshe Kam
Abstract. Resource allocation in ad hoc communication networks is a field of high complexity because of both i) the distributed nature of the interactions between the nodes, and ii) the large set of...
A New Synthetic Web Server Trace Generation Methodology (2008)
We propose a new synthetic trace generation methodology for web server performance benchmarking. We discuss the two primary existing approaches to synthetic trace generation in terms of queueing...
Ad hoc networks: to spread or not to spread? (2007)
Andrews, Jeffrey G., Weber, Steven, Haenggi, Martin
Spread spectrum communication — often called code-division multiple access — has been widely adopted over the years for many types of interference-challenged wireless communication systems...
the Internet and ATM Networks Approved by (2007)
Tae-jin Lee, The Internet, Xun Su, Steven Weber, Philip Girolami, John Stine, ...
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Bandwidth Partitioning in Decentralized Wireless Networks (2007)
Jindal, Nihar, Andrews, Jeffrey G., Weber, Steven
This paper addresses the following question, which is of interest in the design of a multiuser decentralized network. Given a total system bandwidth of W Hz and a fixed data rate constraint of R bps...
The effect of fading, channel inversion, and threshold scheduling on ad hoc networks (2007)
Weber, Steven, Andrews, Jeffrey G., Jindal, Nihar
This paper addresses three issues in the field of ad hoc network capacity: the impact of i) channel fading, ii) channel inversion power control, and iii) threshold–based scheduling on capacity....
Fractional Power Control for Decentralized Wireless Networks (2007)
Jindal, Nihar, Weber, Steven, Andrews, Jeffrey G.
We consider a new approach to power control in decentralized wireless networks, termed fractional power control (FPC). Transmission power is chosen as the current channel quality raised to an...
Transmission Capacity of Ad Hoc Networks with Spatial Diversity (2007)
Hunter, Andrew M., Andrews, Jeffrey G., Weber, Steven
This paper derives the outage probability and transmission capacity of ad hoc wireless networks with nodes employing multiple antenna diversity techniques, for a general class of signal...
Fractional power control for decentralized wireless networks (2007)
Nihar Jindal, Steven Weber, Jeffrey G. Andrews
We propose and analyze a new paradigm for power control in decentralized wireless networks, termed fractional power control. Transmission power is chosen as the current channel quality raised to an...
Fractional power control for decentralized wireless networks (2007)
Nihar Jindal, Steven Weber, Jeffrey G. Andrews
We consider a new approach to power control in decentralized wireless networks, termed fractional power control (FPC). Transmission power is chosen as the current channel quality raised to an...
The effect of fading, channel inversion, and threshold scheduling on ad hoc networks (2007)
Steven Weber, Jeffrey G. Andrews, Senior Member, Nihar Jindal
Abstract—This paper addresses three issues in the field of ad hoc network capacity: the impact of i) channel fading, ii) channel inversion power control, and iii) threshold–based scheduling on...
Flow-level QoS for a dynamic load of rate adaptive sessions sharing a bottleneck link (2007)
We consider the flow-level quality of service (QoS) seen by a dynamic load of rate adaptive sessions sharing a bottleneck link based on fair share bandwidth allocation. This is of interest both in...
Fractional power control for decentralized wireless networks (2007)
Nihar Jindal, Steven Weber, Jeffrey G. Andrews
We consider a new approach to power control in decentralized wireless networks, termed fractional power control (FPC). Transmission power is chosen as the current channel quality raised to an...
Rethinking information theory for mobile ad hoc networks (2007)
Jeff Andrews, Nihar Jindal, Martin Haenggi, Y Berry, Syed Jafar, Dongning Guo, ...
The subject of this paper is the long-standing open problem of developing a general capacity theory for wireless networks, particularly a theory capable of describing the fundamental performance...
Fractional power control for decentralized wireless networks (2007)
Nihar Jindal, Steven Weber, Jeffrey G. Andrews, Senior Member
Abstract—We consider a new approach to power control in decentralized wireless networks, termed fractional power control (FPC). Transmission power is chosen as the current channel quality raised to...
Bandwidth partitioning in decentralized wireless networks," submitted to (2007)
Nihar Jindal, Jeffrey G. Andrews, Senior Member, Steven Weber
Abstract—This paper addresses the following question, which is of interest in the design of a multiuser decentralized network. Given a total system bandwidth of W Hz and a fixed data rate...
Influencing factors on plankton populations in a desert man-made lake / (2006)
Weber, Steven., Gerstenberger, Shawn, Advisor.
Typescript (photocopy).
Rate adaptive multimedia streams: Optimization, admission control, and distributed algorithms (2005)
Steven Weber, Gustavo De Veciana, Senior Member
Abstract—This work investigates support of rate adaptive multimedia streams on communication networks. Optimal and practical mechanisms to maximize the customer average quality of service (QoS),...
Rate adaptive multimedia streams: Optimization, admission control, and distributed algorithms (2005)
Steven Weber, Gustavo De Veciana, Senior Member
Abstract — This work investigates support of rate adaptive multimedia streams on communication networks. Optimal and practical mechanisms to maximize the customer average QoS, defined in terms of a...
Veciana, “Transmission capacity of wireless ad hoc networks with outage constraints (2005)
Steven Weber, Jeffrey G. Andrews, Xiangying Yang, Gustavo De Veciana, Senior Member
Abstract — The transmission capacity of a wireless ad hoc network can be defined as the maximum allowable area spectral efficiency such that the outage probability does not exceed some specified...
Veciana, “Transmission capacity of wireless ad hoc networks with outage constraints (2005)
Steven Weber, Xiangying Yang, Jeffrey G. Andrews, Gustavo De Veciana, Senior Member
Abstract — In this paper, upper and lower bounds on the transmission capacity of spread spectrum wireless ad hoc networks are derived. We define transmission capacity as the product of the maximum...
Computational modeling of Interleukin-5 receptor antagonist / (2005)
Pillalamarri, Udaya Uma., Chaiken, Irwin., Weber, Steven., Drexel University. College Of Engineering. Thesis. 2005.
Includes abstract.
Describes the effect of mentorship on new teachers in the Onamia Public Schools.
Veciana, “Asymptotic analysis of rate adaptive multimedia streams (2003)
Steven Weber, Gustavo De Veciana
Abstract We investigate dynamic adaptation policies for rate adaptive multimedia streams in a network where each route traverses at most one bottleneck link. Dynamic adaptation allows clients to...
Network Design for Rate Adaptive Media Streams (2003)
Abstract — Rate adaptive multimedia streams offer significant system and client benefits over non-adaptive streams. These benefits come at the price of increased complexity in providing adequate...
Network Design for Rate Adaptive Media Streams (2003)
Abstract — Rate adaptive multimedia streams offer significant system and client benefits over non-adaptive streams. These benefits come at the price of increased complexity in providing adequate...
Routing and Provisioning VPNs based on Hose Traffic Models and/or (2002)
Gustavo De Veciana, Sangkyu Park, Aimin Sang, Steven Weber
In this paper we investigate various questions associated with routing and provisioning virtual private networks (VPNs) based on hose traffic models or constraints, i.e., using aggregate (hose)...
Driven by two fundamental processes, rapid technological change as well as social innovation and reorganization, a new digital economy, the E-conomy, is emerging. Rather than merely adding an...
Tae-jin Lee, Tae-jin Lee, Xun Su, Steven Weber, Philip Girolami, John Stine, ...
To my parents and Younsuk
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Stanford University, 1988.
Weber, Steven., Stanford University. Thesis.
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 1988.
Distributed Algorithms for Rate-Adaptive Media Streams
Steven Weber, Vilas Veeraraghavan
Distributed algorithms, Streaming media, Rate adaptation,
Driven by two fundamental processes, rapid technological change as well as social innovation and reorganization, a new digital economy, the E-conomy, is emerging. Rather than merely adding an...