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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2013 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to optimal control of trunk reservations and distributed admission control in communication systems
  • 2011 - ACM Fellow For network control and routing.

Overview

Peter Key is a researcher affiliated with Microsoft in the United States, with a focus on decision sciences and business management. Their research encompasses multiple fields including decision sciences and business, management and accounting, with particular emphasis on management science and operations research, strategy and management, economics and econometrics, computer science applications, and safety research.

Their main research topics include digital platforms and economics, auction theory and applications, innovation diffusion and forecasting, mobile crowdsensing and crowdsourcing, experimental behavioral economics studies, game theory and applications, and economic theories and models.

Peter Key has contributed to several publications, with recent papers including:

  • Quality Expectation-Variance Tradeoffs in Crowdsourcing Contests, 2021, Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
  • Congestion Games with Agent Failures, 2021, Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
  • Optimal Pricing and Introduction Timing of Technology Upgrades in Subscription-Based Services, 2022, Operations Research
  • Pricing, Competition and Content for Internet Service Providers, 2020, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking
  • Optimal Pricing and Introduction Timing of Technology Upgrades in Subscription-Based Services, 2021, SSRN Electronic Journal

Frequent coauthors include Yoram Bachrach, Ian A. Kash, Spyros I. Zoumpoulis, Xi Alice Gao, and Thore Graepel.

Peter Key's work has appeared primarily in publication venues such as the Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Operations Research, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, and SSRN Electronic Journal.

The researcher has been recognized with awards including the IEEE Fellow in 2013 for contributions to optimal control of trunk reservations and distributed admission control in communication systems, as well as the ACM Fellow in 2011 for work in network control and routing.

Best Publications

  • PIC: practical Internet coordinates for distance estimation

    M. Costa;M. Castro;R. Rowstron;P. Key

  • Rethinking Indoor Wireless Mesh Design: Low Power, Low Frequency, Full-Duplex

    Bozidar Radunovic;Dinan Gunawardena;Peter Key;Alexandre Proutiere

  • A decision-theoretic approach to call admission control in ATM networks

    R.J. Gibbens;F.P. Kelly;P.B. Key

  • Distributed admission control

    F.P. Kelly;P.B. Key;S. Zachary

  • Rethinking Indoor Wireless: Low Power, Low Frequency, Full-duplex

    Bozidar Radunovic;Dinan Gunawardena;Peter Key;Alexandre Proutiere

  • Performance Analysis of Contention Based Medium Access Control Protocols

    G. Sharma;A. Ganesh;P. Key

  • Efficient and fair MAC for wireless networks with self-interference cancellation

    Nikhil Singh;Dinan Gunawardena;Alexandre Proutiere;Bozidar Radunovi

  • Dynamic Alternative Routing - Modelling and Behaviour

    R. J. Gibbens;F. P. Kelly;P. B. Key

  • Horizon: balancing tcp over multiple paths in wireless mesh network

    Božidar Radunović;Christos Gkantsidis;Dinan Gunawardena;Peter Key

  • System and method for controlling network demand via congestion pricing

    Paul Barham;Richard Black;Peter Key;Neil Stratford

  • Full-duplex wireless communications

    Bozidar Radunovic;Nikhil Singh;Dinan Srilal Gunawardena;Alexandre Proutiere

  • Differential QoS and pricing in networks: where flow control meets game theory

    Peter B. Key;Derek McAuley

  • Path Selection and Multipath Congestion Control

    P. Key;L. Massoulie;P.D. Towsley

  • Optimal Control and Trunk Reservation in Loss Networks

    Peter B. Key

  • Network routing of endpoints to content based on content swarms

    Sandeep Kishan Singhal;Peter Bernard Key;Ming Zhang;Guobin Shen

  • Who's hogging the bandwidth: the consequences of revealing the invisible in the home

    Marshini Chetty;Richard Banks;Richard Harper;Tim Regan

  • Combining Multipath Routing and Congestion Control for Robustness

    Peter Key;Laurent Massoulie;Don Towsley

  • Fixed and market pricing for cloud services

    Vineet Abhishek;Ian A. Kash;Peter Key

  • Fixed and Market Pricing for Cloud Services

    Vineet Abhiskeh;Ian Kash;Peter Key

  • An Optimization Framework for Opportunistic Multipath Routing in Wireless Mesh Networks

    B. Radunovic;C. Gkantsidis;P. Key;P. Rodriguez

  • Path selection and multipath congestion control

    Peter Key;Laurent Massoulié;Don Towsley

Frequent Co-Authors

Laurent Massoulié
Laurent Massoulié French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation - INRIA
Yoram Bachrach
Yoram Bachrach DeepMind (United Kingdom)
Christos Gkantsidis
Christos Gkantsidis Microsoft (United States)
Alexandre Proutiere
Alexandre Proutiere Royal Institute of Technology
Frank Kelly
Frank Kelly University of Cambridge
Ayalvadi Ganesh
Ayalvadi Ganesh University of Bristol
Thomas Karagiannis
Thomas Karagiannis Microsoft (United States)
Pablo Rodriguez
Pablo Rodriguez Telefónica (Spain)
Don Towsley
Don Towsley University of Massachusetts Amherst
Paul Barham
Paul Barham Google (United States)

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