Additional Lecture Material and Errata:
Chapter 1: Measurability of Random Variables (by T. Konstantopoulous)
Chapter 2: Bernoulli and Poisson process waiting times
Exercise 4.13: See also the following paper on power control:
S.V. Hanley and D.N.C. Tse, “Power control and capacity of spread-spectrum wireless networks”, Automatica, vol.35, (no.12), p.1987-2012, Dec. 1999.
Chapter 5: A cellular wireless
system with dynamic channel assignment (DCA) is interpreted as a loss network
in Section 1.1 of Chapter 13 of G.L. Stuber. Principles of
Chapter 5: A scheduling problem for multihop wireless networks
Exercise 7.3: Randomized data object indexing for structured search
Exercise 7.5: Performance of structured search with one long-distance neighbor
Section 7.5: The following
reference has an overview of electronic currency (e-cash): "Combating Double-Spending Using Cooperative P2P Systems",
IEEE International
Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), 2007.
Section 7.5.2: An initial belief vector b (reflecting, say, the opinion
about a particular peer) converges by nearest neighbor averaging according to a
Markov chain, see p. 9 of B. Golub and O. Jackson. “How homophily affects
learning and diffusion in networks”, arXiv0811.4013v1, Jan. 29, 2009.
Exercise 7.10 Errata: Rather than dividing by n on the left-hand-side in the display, divide by ∑k≠iRik(n)