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Table of Contents

 o Work
 o Bridge
 o Motorcycles
 o Maths
 o Computing
 o Football
 o Miscellany

Work

Currently at Science Foundation Ireland.

Was at the Hamilton.

And at CNRI.

Networking papers

Written with various combinations of Doug Leith, Ken Duffy, David Malone, and others:

A Non-Invasive Method for Link Upgrade Planning Using Coarse-Grained Measurements IEEE Communications Letters 11(12), 2007
Channel Dependent Interference and Decentralized Colouring Proc. International Conference on Network Control and Optimization, 2007, Avignon
Experimental Implementation of Optimal WLAN Channel Selection Without Communication Proc. IEEE Dyspan, 2007, Dublin
MAC layer channel quality measurement in 802.11 IEEE Communications Letters 11(2), 2007
Modeling 802.11e for data traffic parameter design IEEE WiOPT 2006, Boston
On Buffer Sizing for Voice in 802.11 WLANs IEEE Communications Letters 10(10), 2006
Convergence of Distributed Learning Algorithms for Optimal Wireless Channel Allocation Proc. IEEE Conf on Decision and Control, 2006, San Diego
A Self-Managed Distributed Channel Selection Algorithm for WLANs Proc. RAWNET 2006, Boston
Modelling TCP Dynamics in Wireless Networks Proc. Wirelesscom 2005, Hawaii
Using the 802.11e EDCF to Achieve TCP Upload Fairness Over WLAN Links Proc. WiOpt 2005, Trento, Italy
TCP Fairness in 802.11e WLANs Proc. Wirelesscom 2005, Hawaii
TCP Fairness in 802.11e WLANs IEEE Communications Letters 9 (11), 2005
On Improving Voice Capacity in 802.11 Infrastructure Networks. Proc. Wirelesscom 2005, Hawaii

Book Chapters

Qiang Ni, David Malone, Peter Clifford, Ken Duffy, Douglas Leith and Tianji Li.
Modelling and simulation analysis of the 802.11/802.11e MAC layers.
Advances in Wireless Networks: Performance Modelling, Analysis and Enhancement,
Nova Science Publishers, edited by Geyong Min, Yi Pan and Pingzhi Fan, 2007.

Combinatorics papers

From my work with Richard Stanley

Bottom Schur Functions, Electronic Journal of Combinatorics 11(1), 2004.
Minimal Bar Tableaux, Annals of Combinatorics 9(3), 2005.

Bridge

 o I play my club bridge at the Bankers Bridge Club.
 o Bridge Without Sam is a great set of columns written by Jeff Goldsmith.
 o Richard Pavlicek has some challenging problem sets.
 o Bridge Base Online is the premier site for online bridge of all levels.
 o Irish bridge: Massive kudos to Tom Hanlon, Hugh McGann, Adam Mesbur, Nick FitzGibbon, Tommy Garvey and John Carroll for bringing Ireland to the Bermuda Bowl for the very first time in 2007.
 o Chancers in action. Never bid again after a pre-empt (Board 18).
 o My first club.
 o Dutch madness (weak and 5, 1D unbalanced)system with Norbert or Willem.
 o Strong and 4 system with Mary.
 o Polish club system with Brian.

Motorcycles

mangulation:
Hubris is the enemy, hubris is the guy.
Enemy behind enemy lines; we need an enemy.

The pace.

Maths

International Maths Olympiad training: Saturday mornings at UL, UCD, NUIM in the late autumn and spring.

Computing

I Cringely.

Cartoons for geeks.

Local computer blog.

Football

Rafa needs to go.

Miscellany

Holidaying in Achill?

page last updated: 26th January 2008

all content copyright © peter clifford 2007-2008