Preface

Summary

Because of fading channels, user mobility, energy/power resources, and many other factors, cross-layer design and multiuser optimization are the keys to ensuring overall system performance of wireless networks. And resource allocation is one of the most important issues for implementing future wireless networks.

In the past decade, we have witnessed significant progress in the advance of resource allocation over wireless networks. It is not only an important research topic, but is also gradually becoming an integral teaching material for graduate-level networking courses.

Yet there are few books available to date that can serve such a purpose. Why? Because the field of resource allocation is such a versatile area that covers a broad range of issues, it is not easy to develop a comprehensive book to cover them all. For instance, resource allocation across various networking layers encounters different design constraints and parameters; different networking scenarios have different performance goals and service objectives; and different formulations of resource allocations need to employ different optimization tools.

To respond to the need of such a book for graduate students, researchers, and engineers, we try to tackle the difficulties by bringing together our research in resource allocation over the past decade and the basic material of resource allocation and optimization techniques to form the foundation of this book. Its intent is to serve either as a textbook for advanced graduate-level courses on networking or as a reference book for self-study by researchers and engineers.

This book covers three main parts. In Part I, the basic principles of resource allocation is discussed.