Nemo Semret, PhD.

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PhD Thesis: Market Mechanisms for Network Resource Sharing

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Refereed Journal/Conference papers

  • Semret, N., Liao, R., Campbell, A., Lazar, A. A., Peering and Provisioning of Differentiated Internet Services, IEEE Infocom 2000, Tel Aviv, Israel, March 2000.
  • Semret, Lazar, Spot and Derivative Markets in Admission Control, 16th International Teletraffic Congress, Edinburgh, UK, June 1999.
  • Semret, Liao, Campbell, Lazar Market Pricing of Differentiated Internet Services, 7th IWQoS, London, May 31 - June 4, 1999.
  • Lazar, Semret, Design and Analysis of the Progressive Second Price Auction for Network Bandwidth Sharing, Telecommunications Systems, Special Issue on Network Economics, to appear.
  • Lazar, Semret, The Progressive Second Price Auction Mechanism for Network Resource Sharing, 8th International Symposium on Dynamic Games, Maastricht, The Netherlands, July 5-8, 1998.
  • Jelenkovic, Lazar, Semret, The Effect of Multiple Time Scales and Subexponentiality of MPEG Video Streams on Queueing Behavior, , IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, Vol. 15, No. 6, August 1997.
  • Jelenkovic, Lazar, Semret, Multiple Time Scales and Subexponentiality in MPEG Video Streams, Proceedings of the International IFIP-IEEE Conference on Broadband Communications, Montreal, Canada, April 23-25, 1996. You can buy the volume from Amazon.com!

    • Technical Reports

  • Peering and Provisioning of Differentiated Internet Services, ps.gz file, pdf file
  • Market Pricing of Differentiated Internet Services ps.gz file pdf file
  • Spot and Derivative Markets in Admission Control, CU/CTR/TR 501-98-35, ps.gz file, pdf file
  • Design, Analysis and Simulation of the Progressive Second Price Auction for Network Bandwidth Sharing, CU/CTR/TR 487-98-21, ps.gz file, pdf file
  • Auctions for Network Resource Sharing, Technical Report CU/CTR/TR 468-97-02
  • A Resource Allocation Game with Application to Wireless Spectrum, Technical Report CU/CTR/TR 456-96-22

    • Other publications and conference presentations

  • The Dynamics of an Auction for Network Resource Sharing, DIMACS Workshop on Economics, Game Theory, and the Internet, April 18-19 1997
  • African Internet Topology Maps and Traffic Report, Proceedings of the 3rd ESS Conference on Telecommunications, August 7th, 1998
  • Unleashing Ethiopia's Potential: The Technological Reasons for Open and Competitive Cybercommunications, Proceedings of the 1st ESS Conference on Telecommunications, Washington, DC, July 2nd, 1996
  • Digital Coffee: some thoughts on commodity markets, disintermediation, and Starbucks. Seleda.com, Nov. 1999.

    • Software

  • Batuta, interactive internet topology map viewer and editor.
  • M-REX, Multiple Resource EXchange: a routing game in Java, implemented while I was at Bell Labs.
  • M-REX, Multiple Resource EXchange: a routing game in Java, implemented while I was at Bell Labs.
  • Resource Allocation and Networking Games API (Java package)
  • T-REX, The Resource EXchange: a distributed networking game on the WWW (Java applet)
  • T-REX, v0 software report.

    • Other

  • Review of "The Evolution of Algorithmic Learning Rules" (critique of a paper by that title)
  • A Resource Allocation Game with Application to Wireless Spectrum (Thesis Proposal)
  • Open Spectrum Access (project summary)
  • Characterization and Modeling of MPEG Video Traffic on Multiple Timescales
  • G. Giammarino, N. Semret, Generalized Graph Representation for Secret Sharing
  • The Story of Qyu-Ing (Queueing network simulation)

    • Teaching

  • Course Manager for EE E6970 Resource Allocation and Networking Games -- Summer 1998.
  • Teaching Asst. for EE E6970 Resource Allocation and Networking Games -- Spring 1997.
  • Teaching Asst. for EE E6960 Multimedia Networking -- Spring 1996.

    • Hotlist

  • Networking Games
  • COMET Group
  • Network Bibliography
  • Economics Working Paper Archive
  • Java
  • CORBA
  • Differential Service for the Internet
  • IETF
  • The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
  • ATM Forum
  • ATM FAQ

    • Foundations

    The following famous ideas from economics (a new area for me) have provided the foundations for my thesis work. I would have saved a lot of time if I had just begun my research by going through Nobel prizes, but as it happened, all of them emerged naturally during the course of the work. This is not surprizing, since they are really fundamental ideas about information, truth, and risk.
  • Nash, Selten, Harsanyi, 1994 Econ. Nobel Prize for equilibrium as solution concept in game theory.
  • Mirlees, Vickrey, 1996 Econ. Nobel Prize for theory of incentives.
  • Merton, Scholes, 1997 Econ. Nobel Prize for derivative pricing.
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