This thesis proposes a new approach to intrusion detection in networks. This approach is based on Information Centrality (IC) using which systemic attacks can perform the same level of intrusion detection using approximately ...

Scarcity of the wireless spectrum has become a major problem as a result of the rapid growth in wireless communications. With the proliferation of smart phones and tablets, wireless data more than doubles every year. The ...

Reliable communication in wireless networks currently relies on the perfect estimation of the varying state of the wireless channel at all communicating nodes. While the next generation of wireless networks promises ...

Network Formation Games is a rich category of games which studies how a network emerges as an outcome of strategic interaction of self-interested nodes (agents) pursuing their own objectives. The conflicts among node ...

A basic market model uses an iterative commitment and dispatch engine that solves an AC power flow every 5 minutes, before compiling results back to 24-hour periods for analysis. The impact to ancillary service and generator ...

2) Pricing under uncertainty: Even when the seller only has access to a distribution over (submodular) buyer valuations, and items have a non-linear production cost, we show that it is possible to efficiently compute prices ...