Book of Abstracts of the Sixth SIAM Workshop on Combinatorial Scientific Computing

Book of Abstracts of CSC14 edited by Bora UçarInternational audienceThe Sixth SIAM Workshop on Combinatorial Scientific Computing, CSC14, was organized at the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France on 21st to 23rd July, 2014. This two and a half day event marked the sixth in a series that started ten years ago in San Francisco, USA. The CSC14 Workshop's focus was on combinatorial mathematics and algorithms in high performance computing, broadly interpreted. The workshop featured three invited talks, 27 contributed talks and eight poster presentations. All three invited talks were focused on two interesting fields of research specifically: randomized algorithms for numerical linear algebra and network analysis. The contributed talks and the posters targeted modeling, analysis, bisection, clustering, and partitioning of graphs, applied in the context of networks, sparse matrix factorizations, iterative solvers, fast multi-pole methods, automatic differentiation, high-performance computing, and linear programming. The workshop was held at the premises of the LIP laboratory of ENS Lyon and was generously supported by the LABEX MILYON (ANR-10-LABX-0070, Université de Lyon, within the program ''Investissements d'Avenir'' ANR-11-IDEX-0007 operated by the French National Research Agency), and by SIAM

Topology Control in Cooperative Ad Hoc Wireless Networks

AbstractCooperative communication (CC) is a technique that exploits spatial diversity allowing multiple nodes to cooperatively relay signals to the receiver so that it can combine the received signals to obtain the original message. CC can be combined with topology control to increase connectivity at the cost of a small increase in energy consumption. This work focuses on exploring CC to improve the connectivity with a sink node in ad hoc wireless networks. More precisely, this work proposes a new technique, named CoopSink, that combines CC and topology control techniques to increase connectivity to a sink node while ensuring energy-efficient routes. Simulation results show that connectivity and routing to the sink cost can be improved up to 6.8 and 2.3 times, respectively, when compared with other similar strategies

Airborne Directional Networking: Topology Control Protocol Design

This research identifies and evaluates the impact of several architectural design choices in relation to airborne networking in contested environments related to autonomous topology control. Using simulation, we evaluate topology reconfiguration effectiveness using classical performance metrics for different point-to-point communication architectures. Our attention is focused on the design choices which have the greatest impact on reliability, scalability, and performance. In this work, we discuss the impact of several practical considerations of airborne networking in contested environments related to autonomous topology control modeling. Using simulation, we derive multiple classical performance metrics to evaluate topology reconfiguration effectiveness for different point-to-point communication architecture attributes for the purpose of qualifying protocol design elements

Algorithmes auto-stabilisants pour la construction de structures couvrantes réparties

This thesis deals with the self-stabilizing construction of spanning structures over a distributed system. Self-stabilization is a paradigm for fault-tolerance in distributed algorithms. It guarantees that the system eventually satisfies its specification after transient faults hit the system. Our model of distributed system assumes locally shared memories for communicating, unique identifiers for symmetry-breaking, and distributed daemon for execution scheduling, that is, the weakest proper daemon. More generally, we aim for the weakest possible assumptions, such as arbitrary topologies, in order to propose the most versatile constructions of distributed spanning structures. We present four original self-stabilizing algorithms achieving k-clustering, (f,g)-alliance construction, and ranking. For every of these problems, we prove the correctness of our solutions. Moreover, we analyze their time and space complexity using formal proofs and simulations. Finally, for the (f,g)-alliance problem, we consider the notion of safe convergence in addition to self-stabilization. It enforces the system to first quickly satisfy a specification that guarantees a minimum of conditions, and then to converge to a more stringent specification.Cette thèse s'intéresse à la construction auto-stabilisante de structures couvrantes dans un système réparti. L'auto-stabilisation est un paradigme pour la tolérance aux fautes dans les algorithmes répartis. Plus précisément, elle garantit que le système retrouve un comportement correct en temps fini après avoir été perturbé par des fautes transitoires. Notre modèle de système réparti se base sur des mémoires localement partagées pour la communication, des identifiants uniques pour briser les symétries et un ordonnanceur inéquitable, c'est-à-dire le plus faible des ordonnanceurs. Dans la mesure du possible, nous nous imposons d'utiliser les plus faibles hypothèses, afin d'obtenir les constructions les plus générales de structures couvrantes réparties. Nous présentons quatre algorithmes auto-stabilisants originaux pour le k-partitionnement, la construction d'une (f,g)-alliance et l'indexation. Pour chacun de ces problèmes, nous prouvons la correction de nos solutions. De plus, nous analysons leur complexité en temps et en espace à l'aide de preuves formelles et de simulations. Enfin, pour le problème de (f,g)-alliance, nous prenons en compte la notion de convergence sûre qui vient s'ajouter à celle d'auto-stabilisation. Elle garantit d'abord que le comportement du système assure rapidement un minimum de conditions, puis qu'il continue de converger jusqu'à se conformer à une spécification plus exigeante