End-to-end link power control in optical networks using Nash bargaining solution

摘要

We are very pleased to welcome you all to ValueTools 2007 in the city of Nantes, France. >In recent years, a range of performance evaluation methodologies and tools has been developed within disparate research communities for the purposes of evaluation, design, and model reduction. The aim of the *Performance Evaluation Methodologies and Tools* (ValueTools) conference is to build bridges between these communities, which often operate in closed groups with little opportunity for interaction and cross-fertilization, and to bring theory and practice closer together in order to: >• compare and debate the complete range of performance evaluation methodologies and their implementation through specific tools >• promote an interdisciplinary flow of technical information among industry systems designers and researchers. >The event is the second of a series initiated in 2006 in Pisa, Italy. The ValueTools conference is organized over three days, from the 23rd of October to the 25th, with four associated workshops, two of them being held on the 22nd: >• GameComm: The First International Workshop on Game theory for Communication networks; >• NSTools: The First International Workshop on Network Simulation Tools; >and the two others on the 26th: >• Inter-Perf: Workshop on interdisciplinary systems approach in performance evaluation and design of computer & communication systems >•• SMCtools: International Workshop on Tools for solving Structured Markov Chains. >ValueTools starts with a keynote speech presented by Bruce Hajek, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA. There are also two additional plenary talks, from Jean-Yves Le Boudec, Professor at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland, and Laurent Massoulie, from Thomson Research, Paris, France. The first plenary talk is related to and precedes an invited session on statistical physics applied to networking which is part of the conference program. >There are 45 paper presentations selected from 83 submissions having undergone a full review process. All papers in the invited sessions have also undergone the exact same process. The final program shows a real international scope, with authors from five continents. From all presented papers, a number with particular merit has been selected and extended versions of these papers will be published in Performance Evaluation Journal.