David Alderson: Papers and Publications

Recent Work

• W. Willinger, D. Alderson, J. Doyle, and L. Li. More "Normal" Than Normal: Scaling Distributions and Complex Systems. Proceedings of the 2004 Winter Simulation Conference. R.G. Ingalls, M.D. Rossetti, J.S. Smith, and B.A. Peters, eds. December 2004. [pdf]
• D. Alderson and K. Soo Hoo. The Role of Economic Incentives in Securing Cyberspace. Stanford Center for International Security and Cooperation, November 2004. [link]
• W. Willinger, D. Alderson, J. Doyle, and L. Li. A pragmatic approach to dealing with high variability in network measurements. Proc. ACM SIGCOMM Internet Measurement Workshop 2004, Taormina, Sicily, Italy, October 25-27, 2004. [pdf]
• L. Li, D. Alderson, W. Willinger, and J. Doyle. A First-Principles Approach to Understanding the Internet's Router-Level Topology. Proc. ACM SIGCOMM 2004, Portland, Oregon, Aug.30-Sept.2, 2004. [pdf]
• D. Alderson, W. Willinger, L. Li, and J. Doyle. The Role of Optimization in Understanding and Modeling Internet Topology. Submitted. April 2004.
• D. Alderson. Technological and Economic and Economic Drivers and Constraints in the Internet's "Last Mile", Technical Report CIT-CDS-04-004, Engineering Division, California Institute of Technology, February 2004. [pdf]
• D. Alderson, Congestion-Induced Collapse in Networks: Managing Failure Cascades in Complex Systems and Infrastructure Protection. Ph.D. Thesis, Stanford University. May 2003.
• D. Alderson, J. Doyle, R. Govindan, and W. Willinger. Toward an Optimization-Driven Framework for Designing and Generating Realistic Internet Topologies. In ACM HotNets-I, Princeton, NJ, October 2002. Published in ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communications Review, Vol. 33, No. 1, January 2003. [pdf]