This book allows readers to gain an in-depth understanding of resource allocation problems in wireless networks and the techniques used to solve them.

Ekram Hossain is a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Manitoba, Canada and a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. He is the co-author or co-editor of several books, including Wireless Device-to-Device Communications and Networks (with Lingyang Song, Dusit Niyato and Zhu Han, Cambridge, 2015) and Smart Grid Communications and Networking (with Zhu Han and H. Vincent Poor, Cambridge, 2012).

Part I. Basics of Wireless Networks: 1. Introduction; 2. Wireless networks and resource allocation; Part II. Techniques for Modeling and Analysis of Radio Resource Allocation Methods in Wireless Networks: 3. Optimization techniques; 4. Game theory; Part III. Physical Layer Resource Allocation in Wireless Networks: 5. General system model and preliminary concepts; 6. Power control in cellular wireless networks; 7. Distributed joint power and admission control; 8. Joint power and admission control in cognitive radio networks; 9. Cell association in cellular networks; Part IV. Link Layer Resource Allocation in Wireless Networks: 10. Subcarrier/subchannel allocation in OFDMA networks; 11. Resource allocation in relay-based networks; 12. Channel allocation for infrastructure-based 802.11 WLANs; Part V. Cross-Layer Modeling for Resource Allocation in Wireless Networks: 13. Joint PHY/RLC design in cellular wireless networks.