David Malone's Publications and Presentations

This is a list of publications and presentations. It begins with books, journals papers and conference papers and then moves on to lighter material. Note, links are sometimes to preprints rather than the final version. You can also find my list of Scribblings here.

Journal Papers

  1. "Experimental Verification of a Radio-Frequency Power Model for Wi-Fi Technology." Minyu Fang and David Malone. Health Physics. To Appear.
  2. "Achieving End-to-end Fairness in 802.11e Based Wireless Multi-Hop Mesh Networks Without Coordination." Tianji Li, Douglas J Leith, Venkataramana Badarla, David Malone and Qizhi Cao. Mobile Networks and Applications (MONET). To Appear.
  3. "Ambient Radiofrequency Power: the Impact of the Number of Devices in a Wi-Fi Network." David Malone and Lesley A. Malone. Health Physics. Vol 96, Issue 6, 629–635, June 2009.
  4. "Aggregation with Fragment Retransmission for Very High-Speed WLANs." Tianji Li, Qiang Ni, David Malone, Douglas Leith, Yang Xiao and Thierry Turletti. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking. Vol 17, Issue 2, 591–604, April 2009.
  5. "Logarithmic asymptotics for a single-server processing distinguishable sources." Ken R. Duffy and David Malone. Mathematical Methods of Operations Research. Vol 68, Issue 3, 509–537, December 2008.
  6. "Implementing TCP Flow-Level Fairness Using 802.11e in a Multi-Radio Mesh Testbed." Venkataramana Badarla, David Malone, Douglas J. Leith. IEEE Communications Letters. Vol 12, Issue 4, 262–264, April 2008.
  7. "Experimental Assessment of 802.11 MAC Layer Channel Estimators." Domenico Giustiniano, David Malone, Douglas J. Leith and Konstantina Papagiannaki. IEEE Communications Letters. Vol 11, Issue 12, 961–963, December 2007.
  8. "Modeling the 802.11 Distributed Coordination Function in Non-saturated Heterogeneous Conditions." David Malone, Ken Duffy and Doug Leith. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking. Vol. 15, Issue 1, 159–172, February 2007.
  9. "Ambiguities in estimates of critical exponents for long-range dependent processes." Ken Duffy, Christopher King and David Malone. Physica A. Issue 377:1 (2007) 43–53.
  10. "MAC layer channel quality measurement in 802.11." David Malone, Peter Clifford and Douglas J. Leith. IEEE Communications Letters. Vol. 11, No. 2, 143–145, February 2007.
  11. "Some remarks on LD plots for heavy-tailed traffic." David Malone, Ken Duffy and Christopher King. ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communications Review. Vol. 37, Issue 1, 41–42, January 2007 (editorial note).
  12. "On Buffer Sizing for Voice in 802.11 WLANs." David Malone, Peter Clifford and Douglas J. Leith. IEEE Communications Letters. Vol. 10, No. 10, 700–703, October 2006.
  13. "Modeling 802.11 Mesh Networks." Ken Duffy, Douglas J. Leith, Tianji Li and David Malone. IEEE Communications Letters. Vol. 10, No. 8, 635–637, August 2006.
  14. "Counting 6to4 Relay Routers." David Malone. ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communications Review. Vol. 36, Issue 1, 79–82, January 2006.
  15. "TCP Fairness in 802.11e WLANs." Douglas J. Leith, Peter Clifford, David Malone, and Anthony Ng. IEEE Communications Letters. Vol. 9, No. 11, 964–966, November 2005.
  16. "Modeling the 802.11 Distributed Coordination Function in Non-saturated Conditions." Ken Duffy, David Malone and Doug Leith. IEEE Communications Letters. Vol. 9, No. 8, 715–717, August 2005.
  17. "A Sinister View of Dilation Equations." David Malone. International Journal of Wavelets, Multiresolution and Information Processing. Vol. 3, No. 1, 67–77, March 2005.
  18. "Misbehaving name servers and what they're missing." David Malone. Cisco Internet Protocol Journal. Vol. 8, No. 1, 2–5, March 2005.
  19. "Guesswork and Entropy." David Malone and Wayne Sullivan. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. Vol. 50, No. 3, 525–526, March 2004.
  20. "L2(ℝ) Solutions of Dilation Equations and Fourier-like Transforms." David Malone. The Journal of Fourier Analysis and Applications. 8 (2002), no. 3, 309–317.
  21. "An Unusual Construction of the Fourier Transform." David Malone. Irish Mathematical Society Bulletin. Easter 1999, 42, 15–20.

Conference Papers

  1. "802.11 Wireless LAN Multiplayer Game Capacity and Optimization." Hanghang Qi, David Malone and Dimitri Botvich. NetGames 2009. 23–24 November 2009.
  2. "Does every bit need the same power? An investigation on unequal power allocation for irregular LDPC codes." Hanghang Qi, David Malone and Vijay Subramanian. International Conference on Wireless Communications and Signal Processing. 13–15 November 2009.
  3. "Inferring Queue State by Measuring Delay in a WiFi Network." David Malone, Douglas J Leith and Ian Dangerfield. International Workshop on Traffic Monitoring and Analysis (TMA 2009, LNCS 5537). 11 May 2009.
  4. "Complexity Attack Resistant Flow Lookup Schemes for IPv6: A Measurement Based Comparison." David Malone and R. Joshua Tobin. European Conference on Computer Network Defence (EC2ND 2008). 11-12 December 2008.
  5. "Investigating the Validity of IEEE 802.11 MAC Modeling Hypotheses." Kaidi D. Huang, Ken R. Duffy, David Malone and Douglas J. Leith. IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC 2008). 16–18 September 2008.
  6. "Achieving End-to-end Fairness in 802.11e Based Wireless Multi-hop Mesh Networks." Tianji Li, Douglas Leith, David Malone and Venkataramana Badarla. Chinacom 2008. 25–27 August, 2008.
  7. "Observations of IPv6 Addresses." David Malone. Passive and Active Measurement Conference (PAM 2008, LNCS 4979). 29–30 April 2008.
  8. "Spurious TCP Timeouts in 802.11 Networks." David Malone, Douglas J. Leith, Anshuman Aggarwal, Ian Dangerfield. Workshop on Wireless Network Measurement (WiNMee 2008). April 2008.
  9. "Understanding 802.11e Voice Behaviour via Testbed Measurements and Modeling." Ian Dangerfield, David Malone and Doug Leith. Workshop on Wireless Network Measurement (WiNMee 2007). 20 April 2007.
  10. "Experimental Implementation of Optimal WLAN Channel Selection Without Communication." David Malone, Peter Clifford, David Reid and Douglas J. Leith. IEEE International Symposium on New Frontiers in Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks (DySPAN '07). 17–20 April 2007.
  11. "Verification of Common 802.11 MAC Model Assumptions." David Malone, Ian Dangerfield, and Doug Leith. Passive and Active Measurement Conference (PAM 2007, LNCS 4427). 5–6 April 2007.
  12. "Analysis of ICMP Quotations." David Malone and Matthew Luckie. Passive and Active Measurement Conference (PAM 2007, LNCS 4427). 5–6 April 2007.
  13. "Is Current 6to4 Relay Deployment Adequate?" Mónica Domingues, Carlos Friaças and David Malone. Second International Workshop on IPv6 Today. 4–9 March 2007.
  14. "A New MAC Scheme for Very High-Speed WLANs." Tianji Li, Qiang Ni, David Malone, Douglas Leith, Yang Xiao and Thierry Turletti. IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM 2006). 26–29 June 2006.
  15. "Improving Fairness in Multi-Hop Mesh Networks Using 802.11e." Ken Duffy, Douglas J. Leith, Tianji Li and David Malone. Workshop on Resource Allocation in Wireless NETworks (RAWNET 2006). April 3, 2006.
  16. "Testbed Evaluation of 802.11e EDCA for Enhanced Voice over WLAN Performance." Ian Dangerfield, David Malone, Douglas J. Leith. International Workshop On Wireless Network Measurement (WiNMee 2006). April 3, 2006.
  17. "Modeling 802.11e for Data Traffic Parameter Design." Peter Clifford, Ken Duffy, John Foy, Douglas J. Leith and David Malone. Symposium on Modeling and Optimizationin Mobile, Ad Hoc, and Wireless Networks (WiOpt 2006). April 3–7, 2006.
  18. "Flow Label Filtering Feasibility." Orla McGann and David Malone. European Conference on Computer Network Defence. December 15, 2005.
  19. "Modelling 802.11 wireless links." Ken Duffy, David Malone and Douglas J. Leith. IEEE Conference on Decision and Control. December 12–15, 2005.
  20. "Guesswork is not a Substitute for Entropy." David Malone and Wayne Sullivan. Proceedings of the Information Technology & Telecommunications Conference. October 26, 2005.
  21. "Experimental Evaluation of TCP Performance and Fairness in an 802.11e Test-bed." Anthony C.H. Ng, David Malone and Douglas J. Leith. Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM'05 Workshops. August 22, 2005.
  22. "On Improving Voice Capacity in 802.11 Infrastructure Networks." Peter Clifford, Ken Duffy, Douglas J. Leith and David Malone. Proceedings of the International Conference on Wireless Networks, Communications, and Mobile Computing (WIRELESSCOM 2005). April 13, 2005.
  23. "Modeling the 802.11 Distributed Coordination Function with Heterogenous Finite Load." David Malone, Ken Duffy and Douglas J. Leith. Proceedings of the Workshop on Resource Allocation in Wireless NETworks (RAWNET 2005). April 3, 2005.
  24. "The Root of the Matter: Hints or Slaves." David Malone. Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM Internet Measurement Conference 2004. October 25, 2004.
  25. "Recent Filesystem Optimisations in FreeBSD." Ian Dowse and David Malone. Proceedings of the USENIX Annual Technical Conference (FREENIX Track). June 15, 2002.

Books

  1. "IPv6 Network Administration." Niall Richard Murphy and David Malone. O'Reilly & Associates. ISBN: 0-596-00934-8, 275 pages, March 2005.

Book Chapters/Books Edited

  1. "Autonomic Principles of IP Operations and Management: 6th IEEE International Workshop on IP Operations and Management." eds. Gerard Parr, David Malone and Mícheál Ó Foghlú. Springer. ISBN: 3-540-47701-2, LNCS 4268, 2006.
  2. "Modelling and Simulation Analysis of the 802.11/802.11e MAC Layers." Qiang Ni, David Malone, Peter Clifford, Ken Duffy, Douglas Leith and Tianji Li. in Advances in Wireless Networks: Performance Modelling, Analysis and Enhancement (Nova Science, eds. Geyong Min, Yi Pan and Pingzhi Fan). ISBN: 1-60021-713-3, To Appear.

Selected Work from Other Technical Fora

  1. "Software Radio." David Malone. Echo Ireland. December 2009.
  2. "Complexity Attacks on ipfw." David Malone and Josh Tobin. EuroBSDcon 2009 September 19, 2009.
  3. "802.11 Networks." David Malone. Annual Scientific Meeting of the Association is the Association of Physical Scientists in Medicine. February 27, 2009.
  4. "Investigating Secure Disk Erasure with Household Chemicals." David Malone. Lightning Talk, System Administrators' Guild of Ireland. February 10, 2009.
  5. "IPv6 in TCD." David Malone. HEAnet workshop on IPv6 and IP addressing management. June 11, 2008.
  6. "Firewalling." David Malone. HEAnet workshop on IPv6 and IP addressing management. June 11, 2008.
  7. "Local Estimators for 802.11 MAC Channel Quality" Domenico Giustiniano, David Malone, Douglas J. Leith and Konstantina Papagiannaki. RIA Colloquium on Emerging Trends in Wireless Communications. April 24, 2008.
  8. "Crazy Traceroute Project." David Malone. Lightning Talk, System Administrators' Guild of Ireland. December 11, 2007.
  9. "Possible Questions to ask when Interviewing Sysadmins." David Malone. System Administrators' Guild of Ireland. September 11, 2007.
  10. "Network Research and Linux at the Hamilton Institute, NUIM." David Malone. Irish Linux Users Group AGM. November 4, 2006.
  11. "Unwanted HTTP: Who has the time?" David Malone. ;login:. Vol. 31, No. 2, 49–54, April 2006.
  12. "Security Through Obscurity: A review of a few of FreeBSD's lesser-known security capabilities." David Malone. UKUUG Spring Conference 2006. March 23, 2006.
  13. "DNS — It's not short for Domain Name Screwups!" David Malone and Niall Murphy. System Administrators' Guild of Ireland. February 21, 2006.
  14. "Network Congestion Control." David Malone. HEAnet National Networking Conference. November 10, 2005.
  15. "IPv6 Tutorial." Dave Wilson, Niall Murphy and David Malone. HEAnet National Networking Conference. November 10, 2005.
  16. "Security Through Obscurity: A review of a few of FreeBSD's lesser-known security capabilities." David Malone. ;login:. Vol. 30, No. 5, 27–34, October 2005.
  17. "Root hints or root slaves." David Malone. DNS-OARC Workshop. July 25, 2005.
  18. "Large deviations provide good approximation to queueing system with dynamic routing." Ken Duffy, David Malone, Eugene Pechersky, Yuri Suhov, Nikita Vvedenskaya. Technical Report: DIAS-STP-04-15. December 2004.
  19. "How many sites have problems with IPv6 lookups?" David Malone. DNS Working Group, RIPE 48. May 6, 2004.
  20. "Time Keeping and NTP." David Malone. System Administrators' Guild of Ireland. February 10, 2004.
  21. "IPv6 Theory." David Malone. HEAnet National Networking Conference. November 6, 2003.
  22. "A case study of IPv6 deployment: tcd.ie." David Malone. European Operators Forum, RIPE 46. September 2, 2003.
  23. "IPv6." David Malone. Irish Association for High Performance Computing. June 13, 2003.
  24. "Forensics." David Malone. System Administrators' Guild of Ireland. June 10, 2003.
  25. "A Case Study of IPv6 Deployment in tcd.ie." David Malone. Doolin Technologies Technical Talk. May 22, 2003.
  26. "802.11b and the Joy of WarCycling in Dublin." David Malone. System Administrators' Guild of Ireland. November 12, 2002.
  27. "802.11 Wireless Networking Deployment Survey for Dublin, Ireland." Niall Murphy, Ken Duffy and David Malone. Enigma Consulting Report. September 2002.
  28. "Long-range dependence as a consequence of balanced queueing." Ken Duffy, Christopher King and David Malone. CNRI Technical Report. August 22, 2002.
  29. "Is Entropy Guesswork?" David Malone. Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, Winter Symposium. December 19, 2001.
  30. "UFS/FFS Optimisations: Softupdates, Dirpref and Dirhash." David Malone. BSDconEurope. November 10, 2001.
  31. "Solutions to dilation equations." David Malone. Technical Report: TCDMATH 01-11. September 2001.
  32. "Self Affine Tiles and Dilation Equations." David Malone. Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, Easter Symposium. March 16, 2000.
  33. "Nelson Minar's NTP Survey." David Malone. Irish Linux Users Group, Dublin Meeting. February 19, 2000.
  34. "2- and 3-Refinable Functions." David Malone. Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, Christmas Symposium. December 22, 1999.
  35. "Prototype OpenMath to LATEX converter." David Malone. OpenMath Esprit Project. Deliverable 2.1.2, July 1999.
  36. "Dilation Equations and Fourier-like Transforms." David Malone. Georgia Tech Analysis Seminar. May 13, 1998.
  37. "Fourier Analysis, Multiresolution Analysis, and Dilation Equations." David Malone. Technical Report: TCDMATH 98-10. 1998.
  38. "A Multiresolution Approach to Fourier Analysis." David Malone. Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, Easter Symposium. March 21, 1997.

Selected Public/Student Talks and Articles

  1. "Why is it 20:00:00, Wednesday 21st October 2009?" David Malone. Dunsink Observatory Open Night. October 21, 2009.
  2. "Software Radio." David Malone. Dublin Ignite 1. September 24, 2009.
  3. "IPv6: The State of Play." David Malone. IBEC TIF Council. September 2, 2009.
  4. "Recent and Forthcoming FreeBSD Releases." David Malone. Skycon'09, University of Limerick. February 14, 2009.
  5. "What maths can tell us about WiFi (and vice versa)?" David Malone. Dublin University Mathematics Society. Janurary 28, 2009.
  6. "Don't be afraid of IPv6." David Malone. Irish IPv6 Summit. Janurary 28, 2009.
  7. "Why is it 20:00:00, Wednesday 21st November 2007?" David Malone. Dunsink Observatory Open Night. November 21, 2007.
  8. "Why is it 20:00:00, Wednesday 18th October 2006?" David Malone. Dunsink Observatory Open Night. October 18, 2006.
  9. "Time in the Modern World." David Malone. National Museum of Ireland, Light & Time lecture series. January 26, 2006.
  10. "What's on the Wireless?" David Malone. Dublin University Computer Science Society. November 14, 2005.
  11. "Keeping time: who says its lunchtime?" David Malone. Hamilton Mathematics Institute Lunchtime Talk. October 20, 2004.
  12. "Say Kids, What Time is it?" David Malone. National Science Week Talk: Trinity College, Dublin. November 11, 2002.
  13. "Geometry Tidbits." David Malone. Irish Mathematical Students' Association Conference. December 7, 2002.
  14. "Say Kids, What Time Is It?" David Malone. Dublin University Mathematics Society, Dublin University Physical Society, and Trinity Astronomical and Space Society. April 19, 2001.
  15. "Geometry Tidbits." David Malone. Irish Mathematics Intervarsities. March 3, 2001.
  16. "Pretty Pictures: Simple Mathematics and Computer Graphics." David Malone. Irish Mathematical Students' Association Conference. November 25, 2000.
  17. "0,1,2,3,... random numbers." David Malone. Dublin University Mathematics Society. December 8, 1998.
  18. "The Dark Side of the Internet." David Malone. National Science Week Talk: Charleville Public Library, Dublin. November 5, 1998.
  19. "It's only free Unix — but I like it." David Malone. Irish Times. October 12, 1998.
  20. "Free Unix — for business & pleasure." David Malone. TCD Interface. October 1998.
  21. "Wavelets." David Malone. Cumann de Brún, NUI Maynooth. December 9, 1997.
  22. "A Few Natty Problems." David Malone. Irish Mathematical Students' Association Conference. November 21, 1997.
  23. "From Wavelets to Fourier Series: The round-trip." David Malone. Irish Mathematics Intervarsities. February 22, 1997.
  24. "Introduction to the Internet." David Malone. Dublin University Mathematics Society with Proposed Internet Society. January 24, 1996.