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Publications

Selected Publications

• A. Silva, E. Altman, M. Debbah, G. Alfano "Magnetworks: how mobility impacts the design of mobile networks,"
  Proc. of 29th IEEE INFOCOM 2010, San Diego, CA, USA, March 15-19, 2010.
  (acceptance rate: 17,5%, 9 pages).
• P. Jacquet, S. Malik, B. Mans, A. Silva, "On the Throughput-Delay Trade-off in Georouting Networks,"
  Proc. of 31st IEEE INFOCOM 2012, Orlando, FL, USA, March 25-30, 2012.
  (acceptance rate: 18%, 9 pages).
• A. Silva, E. Altman, P. Bernhard M. Debbah, "Continuum Equilibria and Global Optimization for Routing in Dense Static Ad-Hoc Networks,"
  Computer Networks, Volume 54, Issue 6, April 2010, Pages 1005-1018, ISSN: 1389-1286, DOI: 10.1016/j.comnet.2009.10.019.
• A. Silva, H. Tembine, E. Altman, M. Debbah,
  "Optimal mobile association on hybrid networks: centralized and decentralized case,"
  Accepted to IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control.
• A. Silva, G. Tucci, "On the Spectral Gap of Random Geometric Graphs and Their Mobility Properties,"
  Proc. of 7th International Conference on Mobile Ad-Hoc and Sensor Networks, Beijing, China, December 16-18, 2011.
  Nominated for Best Paper Award.
• R. Couillet, S. Wagner, M. Debbah, A. Silva, "The Space Frontier: Physical Limits of Multiple Antenna Information Transfer,"
  Proc. of Valuetools 2008, Workshop Inter-Perf, Athens, Greece, October 20-24, 2008.
  Best student paper award.

Journal Papers

1. A. Silva, H. Tembine, E. Altman, M. Debbah,
   "Optimal mobile association on hybrid networks: centralized and decentralized case,"
   Accepted to IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control.
2. A. Silva, E. Altman, P. Bernhard M. Debbah, "Continuum Equilibria and Global Optimization for Routing in Dense Static Ad-Hoc Networks,"
   Computer Networks, Volume 54, Issue 6, April 2010, Pages 1005-1018, ISSN: 1389-1286, DOI: 10.1016/j.comnet.2009.10.019.

International Conference Papers

1. A.Y.S. Lam, L. Huang, A. Silva, W. Saad, "A Multi-Layer Market for Vehicle-to-Grid Energy Trading in the Smart Grid,"
   Proc. of CCSES Workshop on Green Networking and Smart Grids, Orlando, FL, USA, March 25-30, 2012.
2. P. Jacquet, S. Malik, B. Mans, A. Silva, "On the Throughput-Delay Trade-off in Georouting Networks,"
   Proc. of 31st IEEE INFOCOM 2012, Orlando, FL, USA, March 25-30, 2012.
   (acceptance rate: 18%, 9 pages).
3. A. Silva, G. Tucci, "On the Spectral Gap of Random Geometric Graphs and Their Mobility Properties,"
   Proc. of 7th International Conference on Mobile Ad-Hoc and Sensor Networks, Beijing, China, December 16-18, 2011.
   Nominated for Best Paper Award.
4. S. Malik, A. Silva, J-M. Kelif, "Optimal Base Station Placement: A Stochastic Method Using Interference Gradient In Downlink Case,"
   Proc. of Valuetools 2011, Cachan, France, May 16-20, 2011.
5. A. Silva, H. Tembine, E. Altman, M. Debbah, "Spatial games combining base station placement and mobile association: the downlink case,"
   Proc. of 49th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control 2010, Atlanta, GA, USA, December 15-17, 2010.
6. A. Silva, H. Tembine, M. Debbah, E. Altman, "Uplink spatial games on cellular networks,"
   Proc. of 48th Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, Illinois, IL, USA, September 29-October 1, 2010.
7. A. Silva, E. Altman, M. Debbah, G. Alfano "Magnetworks: how mobility impacts the design of mobile networks,"
   Proc. of 29th IEEE INFOCOM 2010, San Diego, CA, USA, March 15-19, 2010.
   (acceptance rate: 17,5%, 9 pages).
8. A. Silva, P. Reyes, M. Debbah, "Congestion in Randomly Deployed Wireless Ad-Hoc and Sensor Networks,"
   Proc. of International Conference on Ultra Modern Telecommunications 2009, St. Petersburg, Russia, October 12-14, 2009.
9. E. Altman, V. Kamble, A. Silva, "Stochastic Games with One-Step Delay Sharing Information Pattern with Application to Power Control,"
   Proc. of Gamenets 2009, Istanbul, Turkey, May 13-15, 2009.
10. R. Couillet, S. Wagner, M. Debbah, A. Silva, "The Space Frontier: Physical Limits of Multiple Antenna Information Transfer,"
    Proc. of Valuetools 2008, Workshop Inter-Perf, Athens, Greece, October 20-24, 2008.
    Best Student Paper Award.
11. A. Silva, P. Bernhard, E. Altman, "Numerical Solutions of Continuum Equilibria for Routing in Dense Ad-hoc Networks,"
    Proc. of Valuetools 2008, Workshop Inter-Perf, Athens, Greece, October 20-24, 2008.
12. E. Altman, P. Bernhard, A. Silva, "The Mathematics of Routing in Massively Dense Ad-Hoc Networks,"
    Proc. of AdHoc-NOW Conference, Sophia-Antipolis, France, September 10-13, 2008.
13. E. Altman, A. Silva, P. Bernhard, M. Debbah, "Continuum Equilibria for Routing in Dense Ad-hoc Networks"
    Proc. of 45th Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, Illinois, IL, USA, September 26-28, 2007.

Technical Reports

1. S. Borst, I. Saniee, A. Silva, P. Whiting, "Self-Learning Algorithms for KPI Optimization in Wireless Cellular Networks,"
   Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs Technical Memorandum ITD-51055V, November 2010.

Ph.D. Thesis

• Design and optimization of wireless networks for large populations (for details, click here)

Click over the image to see some pictures of my Ph.D. defense.

Selected Talks

• "Licensed vs Unlicensed Spectrum Auction,"
  UC Berkeley, Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences department, Berkeley, CA, USA, October 17, 2011.
• "Optimal Transportation and Wardrop Equilibrium in Wireless Networks,"
  MIT, Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems, Cambridge, MA, USA, April 26, 2010.
• "Magnetworks: How Mobility Impacts the Design of Mobile Ad Hoc Networks,"
  Bell Labs, Murray Hill, NJ, USA, March 9, 2010.
• "Optimal Mobile Association on Hybrid Networks,"
  Université de Bretagne Occidentale, Brest, France, September 29, 2009.
• "Optimal Transportation on Wireless Networks,"
  Université Paris Dauphine, Paris, France, November 6, 2008.
• "Continuum Equilibria for Routing in Dense Ad-Hoc Networks,"
  Supélec, Paris, France, December 5, 2007.