Journals and Magazines
A Stochastic Adaptive Model to Explore Mobile Botnet Dynamics. Augusto Santos, Michele Nogueira, José M.F. Moura. IEEE Communications Letters, 2017
SPARTA: A Survival Performance Degradation Framework for Identity Federations. Ricardo Macedo, Leonardo Melniski, Aldri Santos, Yacine Ghamri-Doudane, Michele Nogueira. Computer Networks, 2017.
Cognitive Radio Based Connectivity Management for Resilient End-to-End Communications in VANETs. Claudio Silva, Eduardo Cerqueira, Donghyun Kim, Aldri Santos, Michele Nogueira. Computer Communications, 2016
A Bio-Inspired Technique for Energy-Aware FPGAs on Body Area Networks. Marco Bontorin, Michele Nogueira, Aldri Santos. IEEE Latin America Transactions, 2015.
Programmable Networks – From Software Defined Radio to Software Defined Networking. Daniel Macedo, Marcos Vieira, Felipe Vieira, Dorgival Guedes, Michele Nogueira. IEEE Communications Survey and Tutorials, vol. 17, No. 2, Second Quarter 2015.
Aspirations, Challenges, and Open Issues for Software-based 5G Networks in Extremely Dense and Heterogeneous Scenarios. Vinicius Borges, Kleber Cardoso, Eduardo Cerqueira, Aldri Santos, Michele Nogueira. EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking, 2015.
Firefly-Inspired and Robust Time Synchronization for Cognitive Radio Ad Hoc Networks. Nadine Lipa, Elisa Mannes, Aldri Santos, Michele Nogueira. Computer Communications, July 2015.
A Framework for Resilient and Secure Spectrum Sensing on Cognitive Radio Networks. Julio Soto and Michele Nogueira. Computer Networks, March 2015.
A Taxonomy for Resilience in Vehicular Ad hoc Networks. Wellington Albano, Michele Nogueira, José Neuman. IEEE Latin America Transactions, January 2015.
Content Dissemination in Vehicular Social Networks: Taxonomy and User Satisfaction. Farouk Mezghani, Riadh Dhaou, Michele Nogueira, André-Luc Beylot. IEEE Communications Magazine, 2014.
Interoperability Issues on Heterogeneous Wireless Communication for Smart Cities. Edson Avelar, Lorena Marques, Diego dos Passos, Ricardo Macedo, Kelvin Dias, Michele Nogueira. Computer Communications, 2014.
Disaster Resilience in Communication Networks (Guest Editorial). Michele Nogueira, Piotr Cholda, Deep Medhi, Robert Doverspike. IEEE Communications Magazine, 2014.
Mitigating Flooding Attacks on Mobility in Infrastructured-based Vehicular Networks. Flavio Arieta, Larissa T. Barabasz, Aldri Santos, Michele Nogueira. IEEE Latin America Transactions, 2014.
Routing Management for Efficient Performance and Security Tradeoff in Wireless Mesh Networks. Helber Silva, Aldri Santos, Michele Nogueira. International Journal of Information Security, 2014.
Data Similarity Aware Dynamic Nodes Clustering on Wireless Sensor Networks. Fernando Gielow, Gentian Jakllari, Michele Nogueira, Aldri Santos. Ad Hoc Networks, 2014.
Taxonomy, Flexibility and Open Issues on PUE Attack Defenses in Cognitive Radio Networks. Julio Soto, Saulo Queiroz, Michele Nogueira. IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine, 2013.
A Survey on Identity Management for the Future Network. Jenny Torres, Michele Nogueira, Guy Pujolle. IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials, 2012.
A Security Management Architecture for Supporting Routing Services on WANETs. Michele N. Lima, Helber W. Silva, Aldri L. Santos, Guy Pujolle. IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management (TNSM), June 2012.
Surviving Key Management on WANETs. Eduardo da Silva, Michele N. Lima, Aldri L. dos Santos, Luiz C. P.Albini. IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine, December 2011.
Identity-Based Key Management in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks: Techniques and Applications. Eduardo da Silva, Michele N. Lima, Aldri L. dos Santos, Luiz C. P.Albini. Special issue on "Dependability Issues with Ubiquitous Wireless Access" - IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine, October 2008.
A Survey of Survivability in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks. Michele N. Lima, Aldri L. Santos, Guy Pujolle. IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials, 2009.
Secure Group-Based Public Key Management for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks. Eduardo da Silva, Michele N. Lima, Aldri L. dos Santos, Luiz C. P. Albini. Cyber journals: multidisciplinary journals in science and technologies, 2012.
Book Chapter
Hot Spots on Wireless Sensor Networks: Issues, Mitigation Approaches, Architecture and Future Directions. Fernando Gielow, Robson Melo, Aldri Santos, Michele Nogueira. Accepted to be published in the book Wireless Sensor Networks and Energy Efficiency: Protocols, Routing and Management, IGI Global, 2011.
Identity-Based Cryptography: Applications, Vulnerabilities and Future Directions. Jenny Torres, Michele Nogueira, Guy Pujolle. Accepted to be published in the book Information Assurance and Security Technologies for Risk Assessment and Threat Management: Advances , IGI Global, 2011.
Dependability and Security on Wireless Self-organized Networks: Properties, Requirements, Approaches and Future Directions. Michele Nogueira, Aldri Santos, Guy Pujolle. To be published in the book "Performance and Dependability in Service Computing: Concepts, Techniques and Research Directions", IGI Global, 2010.
Analyzing the Effectiveness of Self-Organized Public Key Management on MANETs under Lack of Cooperation and Impersonation attacks. Eduardo da Silva, Michele N. Lima, Aldri L. dos Santos, Luiz C. P. Albini. To be published by Springer in the book "E-Business and Telecommunication Networks", 2009.
Book
Mobile Healthcare: concepts, initiatives and applications. Michele N. Lima. ISBN 978-85-910689-0-6. Online version here (in Portuguese).
Conferences, Symposia and Workshops
A Dynamic Channel Allocation Protocol for Medical Environment Under Multiple Base Stations. Bruno Cremonezi, Alex Borges, Michele Nogueira, José Nacif. In: IEEE WCNC, San Francisco, USA, 2017.
A Survival Performance Degradation Framework for Large-scale Networked Systems. Ricardo Macedo, Yacine Ghamri-Doudane, Michele Nogueira. In: IEEE/IFIP IM, Lisbon, Portugal, 2017.
Um Protocolo de Alocação Dinâmica de Canais para Ambientes Médicos sob Múltiplas Estações Base. Bruno Cremonezi, Alex Borges, Michele Nogueira, José Nacif. In: Brazilian Symposium in Computer Networks and Distributed Systems (SBRC), Belém, PA, 2017.
Um Sistema de Identificação Antecipada e Transmissão Prioritária de Alertas Médicos sobre WBAN e WLAN. Andressa Vergutz, Rafael Silva, Alex Borges, Michele Nogueira. In: Brazilian Symposium in Computer Networks and Distributed Systems (SBRC), Belém, PA, 2017.
Avoiding Collisions by Time Slot Reduction Supporting Voice and Video in 802.11 Networks. Rafael Silva, Nadjib Achir, Aldri Santos, Khaled Boussetta, Michele Nogueira. In: IEEE GLOBECOM, Washington D.C., USA, 2016.
Self-Organized SDN Controller Cluster Conformations Against DDoS Attacks Effects. Ricardo Macedo, Aldri Santos, Yacine Ghamri-Doudane, Michele Nogueira. In: IEEE GLOBECOM, Washington D.C, USA, 2016.
A Scheme for DDoS Attacks Mitigation in IdM Systems Through Reorganizations. Ricardo Macedo, Aldri Santos, Yacine Ghamri-Doudane, Michele Nogueira. In: IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS), Istanbul, Turkey, 2016.
A New Privacy-aware Mutual Authentication Mechanism for Charging-on-the-Move in Online Electric Vehicles. Rasheed Hussain, Donghyun Kim, Michele Nogueira, Junggab Son, Alade Tokuta, Heekuck Oh. In: 11th International Conference on Mobile Ad-Hoc and Sensor Networks (MNS'15), Shenzhen, China, 2015.
Guard Mounting: Reorganizations to Mitigate DDoS Attacks over Identity Providers Clustering. Ricardo T. Macedo, Aldri Santos, Yacine Doudane, Michele Nogueira. In: ACM S3 - in Conjunction with ACM MobiCom 2015, Paris, France, 2015.
Detection of Sinkhole Attacks for Supporting Secure Routing on 6LoWPAN for Internet of Things. Christian Vega, Diego Poplade, Michele Nogueira, Aldri Santos. In: IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Management (IM), Ottawa, May 2015.
DDOS Mitigation Cloud-Based Service Fouad Guenane, Michele Nogueira, Ahmed Serhrouchni. In: The 7th IEEE International Symposium on UbiSafe Computing - IEEE TrustCom. Helsinki, Finland, 2015.
Um Sistema de Decisão de Acesso para Conectividade Contínua em Redes Heterogêneas sem Fio (In Portuguese). Robson Melo, Renan Polisciuc, Michele Nogueira, Aldri Santos. In: Simpósio Brasileiro de Redes de Computadores e Sistemas Distribuídos, Vitória, Brazil, 2015.
Redes Sem fio Definidas por Software sobre Mini-PC: Uma Avaliação de Desempenho (In Portuguese). Benevid Silva, Aldri Santos, Michele Nogueira. In: Workshop de Gerência de Redes e Operações de Serviços (WGRS), Simpósio Brasileiro de Redes de Computadores (SBRC). Vitória, Brazil, 2015.
Interest-based forwarding for satisfying user preferences in vehicular networks (invited paper). Farouk Mezghani, Riadh Dhaou, Michele Nogueira, André-Luc Beylot. In: International Conference on Ad Hoc Networks (ADHOCNETS) , Rhodes, September 2014.
Utility-Based Forwarder Selection for Content Dissemination in Vehicular Networks. Farouk Mezghani, Riadh Dhaou, Michele Nogueira, André-Luc Beylot. In: IEEE International Conference on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC 2014), Washington D.C., September 2014.
Contact Lifespan and Interest-Based Content Dissemination in Vehicular Networks. Farouk Mezghani, Riadh Dhaou, Michele Nogueira, André-Luc Beylot. In: Wireless Days , Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, To appear - November 2014.
Data Similarity Aware Dynamic Nodes Clustering For Supporting Management Operations. Fernando Gielow, Michele Nogueira and Aldri Santos. In: IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS). Kracow, Poland, 2014.
A Hybrid Architecture to Manage Performance and Reliability on Cloud-Based Firewalling (Short Paper). Fouad Guename, Michele Nogueira, Guy Pujolle . In: IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS). Kracow, Poland, 2014.
Mecanismo Distribuído para Seleção de Canais em Redes Veiculares Cognitivas (In Portuguese). Claudio Silva, Eduardo Cerqueira and Michele Nogueira. In: Workshop de Redes de Acesso em Banda Larga (WRA), Simpósio Brasileiro de Redes de Computadores (SBRC). Florianópolis, Brazil, 2014.
Caracterização de Tráfego Indesejado em Redes TCP/IP Usando um Honeypot de Baixa Interatividade (In Portuguese). Alisson Puska, Michele Nogueira, Aldri Santos. In: Workshop de Redes de Acesso em Banda Larga (WRA), Simpósio Brasileiro de Redes de Computadores (SBRC). Florianópolis, Brazil, 2014.
Um Modelo de Falhas em Cascata para Sistemas Globais de Gerenciamento de Identidades (In Portuguese). Ricardo Macedo, Yacine Ghamiri-Doudane, Aldri Santos, Michele Nogueira. In: Workshop de Gerência de Redes e Operações de Serviços (WGRS), Simpósio Brasileiro de Redes de Computadores (SBRC). Florianópolis, Brazil, 2014.
Resilient and Multi-dimensional Cooperative Spectrum Sensing on Cognitive Radio Networks. Julio Soto, Kaushik Chowdhury, Michele Nogueira. In: IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (IEEE PIMRC). London, UK, 2013.
Secure and Reliable Identity Management for VANETs. Jenny Torres, Michele Nogueira, Guy Pujolle. In: IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (IEEE INFOCOM), Student Session, Jenny's work. Turin, Italy, 2013.
Secure and Revocable Node Authentication in Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks. Jenny Torres, Michele Nogueira, Guy Pujolle. In: IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC), Split, Croatia, 2013.
A Flexible Multi-Criteria Scheme to Detect Primary User Emulation Attacks in CRAHNs. Julio Soto, Saulo Queiroz, Maria Gregori, Michele Nogueira. IEEE Second IEEE Workshop on Emerging COgnitive Radio Applications and aLgorithms (IEEE CORAL), Madrid, Spain, 2013 (Best Student Paper Award).
Uma Avaliação Experimental de Desempenho do Roteamento Multicaminhos em Redes Veiculares (in Portuguese) Ricardo Macedo, Robson Melo, Leonardo Melniski, Michele Nogueira, Aldri Santos.Workshop on Network and Services Management and Operation (WGRS), Brazilian Symposium in Network and Distributed Systems , Brasilia, DF, Brazil, May 2013.
Investigando o Impacto de Ataques na Sincronização de Tempo em Redes Ad Hoc de Rádio Cognitivo (in Portuguese) Nadine Lipa, Michele Nogueira, Aldri Santos. Workshop on Broadband Access Networks (WRA), Brazilian Symposium in Network and Distributed Systems , Brasilia, DF, Brazil, May 2013 (Best Paper Award).
A Simple, Bio-inspired Time Synchronization Protocol for Cognitive Radio Ad Hoc Networks. Nadine Pari, Aravind Kailas, Michele Nogueira. The 15th International Symposium on Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications (WPMC), 2012 (Best Paper Award)
Uma Análise Experimental de Ataques Jamming no Acesso ao Meio em Redes de Sensores Sem Fio (in Portuguese). Fernando Gielow, Michele Nogueira, Aldri Santos. Brazilian Symposium on Pervasive Computing, Curitiba, 2012.
Serviços Confiáveis em MANETs Baseado em Sistema de Quórum Tolerante a Má-conduta (in Portuguese) Elisa Mannes, Michele Nogueira, Aldri Santos. Brazilian Symposium in Network and Distributed Systems , Ouro Preto, MG, Brazil, April-May 2012.
An Autonomic Knowledge Monitoring Scheme for Trust Management on Mobile Ad Hoc Networks Zeinab Movahedi, Michele Nogueira, Guy Pujolle. IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC) : Mobile and Wireless Networks - Track 3: Mobile and Wireless Networks , Paris, France, April 2012.
A Bio-inspired Scheme on Quorum Systems for Reliable Services Data Management in MANETs Elisa Mannes, Michele Nogueira, Aldri Santos. IEEE/IFIP NOMS , Maui, Hawaii, April 2012.
Biologically Inspired Architecture for Security Management on Wireless Self-Organized Networks. Jenny Torres, Michele Nogueira, Aldri Santos, Guy Pujolle. LANOMS 2011, Quito, Ecuador, October 2011.
Assessing RoQ Attacks on MANETs over Aware and Unaware TPC Techniques. Urlan Barros, Michele Nogueira, Aldri Santos. 7th International Conference on Network and Service Management (CNSM), Paris, October 2011.
Resilient Approach for Energy Management on Hot Spots in WSNs. Fernando Gielow, Aldri Santos, Michele Nogueira. IFIP/IEEE IM 2011, Mini-conference, Dublin, Irland, May 2011.
Um Arcabouço para Adaptação Segura e Eficiente do Serviço de Roteamento em Redes Mesh. Helber Silva, Ramir Holanda, Aldri Santos, Michele Nogueira. I Workshop on Broadband Access Networks (SBRC 2011 - WRA), Brazilian Simposium in Network and Distributed Systems, Campo Grande, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil, 2011 (Received the *Scientific Merit Award* by the Brazilian Computer Society).
Um Modelo Analítico para Avaliação de Desempenho em Redes de Rádio Cognitivo Sob Ataque EUP . Julio Soto, Robson Melo, Aldri Santos, Michele Nogueira. I Workshop on Broadband Access Networks (SBRC 2 011 - WRA), Brazilian Simposium in Network and Distributed Systems, Campo Grande, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil, 2011.
Um Esquema Bio-inspirado para Tolerância à Má-conduta em Sistemas de Quórum para MANETs. Elisa Mannes, Aldri Santos, Michele Nogueira. Brazilian Simposium on Security, Brasilia, DF, Brazil, 2011.
Uma Avaliação de Segurança no Gerenciamento de Mobilidade nas Redes em Malha sem Fio . Larissa Barabasz, Michele Nogueira. Brazilian Simposium on Security, Brasilia, DF, Brazil, 2011.
A Cross-layer and Adaptive Scheme for Balancing Performance and Security on WMN Data Routing. Helber Silva, Raimir Holanda, Aldri Santos, Michele Nogueira. IEEE Globecom 2010 - Ad-hoc and Sensor Networking Symposium - IEEE Globecom 2010 - Ad-hoc and Sensor Networking Symposium, Miami, USA, December 2010.
A Framework for Self-Configuration on WMNs Aware of Performance and Security Issues. Helber Silva, Raimir Holanda, Aldri Santos, Michele Nogueira. International Conference on Network and Service Management, Mini-conference, Nigara Falls, Canada, October, 2010.
Trust Management for Survivable Communication on Self-Organized Wireless Networks. Michele Nogueira, Pedro Velloso, Eduardo Silva, Guy Pujolle. International Telecommunications Symposium (ITS), Manaus, Brazil, September 2010.
Implications of Misbehaving Attacks on Probabilistic Quorum System for MANETs. Elisa Mannes, Eduardo Silva, Michele N. Lima, Aldri dos Santos. International Conference on Security and Cryptography (SECRYPT), Athens, Greece, 2010.
The Impact of RoQ Attacks on IEEE 802.11 Networks with Transmission Power Control. Urlan Barros, Tiago C. Freire, Michele N. Lima, Luiz H. Correia, Aldri dos Santos. IX Brazilian Symposium on Information and Computer System Security (SBSeg) 2009, Campinas, Brazil, September, 2009.
Survivable Keying for Wireless Ad Hoc Networks. Michele N. Lima, Eduardo Silva, Luiz C. P. Albini, Aldri L. dos Santos, Guy Pujolle. In 11th IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management (IM 2009) - Mini-Conference, New York, USA, June, 2009.
An Architecture for Survivable Mesh Networking. Michele N. Lima, Helber W. da Silva, Aldri L. dos Santos, Guy Pujolle. In IEEE Globecom 2008 Ad Hoc, Sensor and Mesh Networking Symposium (GC'08 AHSN), New Orleans, USA, December 2008.
Quantifying Misbehaviour Attacks Against the Self-Organized Public Key Management on MANETs. Eduardo da Silva, Michele N. Lima, Aldri L. dos Santos, Luiz C. P. Albini. International Conference on Security and Cryptography (SECRYPT) 2008, Porto, Portugal, pp. 128-135, July 2008. (Selected as best paper for publication of extension version)
Requirements for survivable routing in MANETs. Michele N. Lima, Helber W. da Silva, Aldri L. dos Santos, Guy Pujolle. International Symposium on Wireless Pervasive Computing (ISWPC) 2008, Santorini, Greece, pp. 441-445, May 2008.
Virtual Structure Effects in Two Hybrid Routing Protocols for Ad Hoc Networks. Luiz C. P. Albini, A. Brawerman, Michele N. Lima, S. Chessa, P. Maestrini. International Symposium on Wireless Pervasive Computing (ISWPC) 2008, Santorini, Greece, pp. 425-432, May 2008.
Survival multipath routing for MANETs. Michele N. Lima, Guy Pujolle, Helber W. da Silva, Aldri L. dos Santos. In IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS) 2008, pp. 425-432, Salvador, Brazil, April 2008.
The Impact of Byzantine Attacks on Survivability of MANET Routing Protocols. Michele N. Lima, Helber W. da Silva, Zeinab Movahedi, Aldri L. dos Santos. Networking and Eletronic Commerce Research Conference (NAEC) 2007, Riva del Garda, Italy, October 2007.
The impact of replication policies in the availability of files in P2P networks under DoS attacks. Michele N. Lima, D. Guedes, Brazilian Symposium on Computer Networks and Distributed Systems, Gramado, RS, Brazil, 2004 (in Portuguese).
Gestion Dynamique de Largeur de Bande Passante dans les Réseaux ATM vai l'Integration des Agents Mobiles avec SNMP. Joaquim C. Rebouças Junior, Taumaturgo Cardoso, André R. Cardoso, Ana L. B. P. B. Diniz, Michele N. Lima. GRES'03 Colloque Francophone sur la Gestion de Réseaux et des Services, v. 1. p. 371-383, 2003, FORTALEZA, Brazil.
Technical reports
PBF: A New Privacy-Aware Billing Framework for Online Electric Vehicles with Bidirectional Auditability. Rasheed Hussain, Donghyun Kim, Michele Nogueira, Junggab Son, Alade O. Tokuta, Heekuck Oh. CoRR abs/1504.05276 (2015)
A Survey of Survivability in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks. Michele N. Lima, Aldri L. Santos, G. Pujolle. Technical Report - LIP6 2007/001, UPMC, Paris, France.
Invited Talks and Tutorials
Are We Ready to Intimately Rely on Wireless and Mobile Health Care?. Author: Dr. Michele Nogueira (Federal Univ. Paraná, Brazil). Invited Talk at Wireless Body Area Workshop - CCNC 2015 Las Vegas, NV, USA, January 09, 2015.
Biologically Inspired Networking Approaches as Building Blocks for Distributed Systems. Co-authors: Dr. Ruairi de Frein (Waterford Institute of Technology, Ireland), Dr. Michele Nogueira (Federal Univ. Paraná, Brazil). Tutorial at CCNC 2015 Las Vegas, NV, USA, January 09, 2015.
Biologically Inspired Networking Approaches as Building Blocks for Distributed Systems. Co-authors: Dr. Ruairi de Frein (Waterford Institute of Technology, Ireland), Dr. Ozan Tonguz (Carnegie Mellon University, USA), Dr. Michele Nogueira (Federal Univ. Paraná, Brazil). Tutorial at DSN 2014 Atlanta, GA, USA, June 23, 2014.
SAMNAR: a Security Management Architecture for Advanced Wireless Networking. Talk at Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC) Barcelona, Spain, April 22, 2013.
Identity management on Future Internet. Talk at The Brazilian Symposium on Computer Networks and Distributed Systems (SBRC), Campo Grande, MS, Brazil, June 3th, 2011.
The SAMNAR architecture: a new approach for security management. Talk at HP Labs, Palo Alto, CA, USA, December 9, 2009.
Denial of service attacks and the new French agency of information security. Interview for "Radio France Internationale (RFI)", Paris, France, July 10, 2009.
Security in ad hoc networks. Angelo Bannack, Eduardo da Silva, Michele N. Lima, Aldri L. dos Santos, Luiz C. P. Albini. In XXVI Brazilian Symposium on Telecommunications (SBrT), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2008 (in Portuguese).
Security in wireless ad hoc networks: concepts, initiatives and future directions. Michele N. Lima. Fortaleza, Brazil. October, 2008 (in Portuguese).
Sécurité dans l'informatique ubiquitaire. Michele N. Lima. Bodrum, Turkey, 2007 (in French).
Network security. Short course. Michele N. Lima. University of Fortaleza, Fortaleza, Brazil, August 2006 (in Portuguese).
Network security for beginners. Short course. Michele N. Lima. PUC-MG, Belo Horizonte, Brazil, July 2005 (in Portuguese).
Theses
Using P2P distributed systems for tolerating DoS attacks. M. Nogueira Lima. Master's thesis, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil, July, 2004. (in Portuguese)
SAMNAR: A survivable architecture for wireless self-organizing networks M. Nogueira Lima. PhD's thesis, University of Paris 6, LIP6, Paris Universitas, Paris, France, October, 2009.