Designing virus-resistant, high-performance networks: A game-formation approach

Designing an optimal network topology while balancing multiple, possibly conflicting objectives like cost, performance, and resiliency to viruses is a challenging endeavor, let alone in the case of decentralized network formation. We therefore propose a game-formation technique where each player aims to minimize its cost in installing links,...

Optimization problems in correlated networks

Background Solving the shortest path and min-cut problems are key in achieving high-performance and robust communication networks. Those problems have often been studied in deterministic and uncorrelated networks both in their original formulations as well as in several constrained variants. However, in real-world networks, link weights (e.g.,...

Availability-based path selection and network vulnerability assessment

Finding critical regions and region-disjoint paths in a network

Finding Critical Regions and Region-Disjoint Paths in a Network

Due to their importance to society, communication networks should be built and operated to withstand failures.However, cost considerations make network providers less inclined to take robustness measures against failures that are unlikely to manifest, like several failures coinciding simultaneously in different geographic regions of their...

Generating graphs that approach a prescribed modularity

Modularity is a quantitative measure for characterizing the existence of a community structure in a network. A network's modularity depends on the chosen partitioning of the network into communities, which makes finding the specific partition that leads to the maximum modularity a hard problem. In this paper, we prove that deciding whether a...

Generating graphs that approach a prescribed modularity