Provides a modern mathematical approach to the design of communication networks for
graduate students, blending control, optimization, and stochastic network theories. A broad …

Embedding pico/femto base-stations and relay nodes in a macro-cellular network is a
promising method for achieving substantial gains in coverage and capacity compared to …

Unlike the Telephone network or the Internet, many of the next generation networks are not
engineered for the purpose of providing efficient communication between various networked …

Recently, it has been shown that carrier-sense multiple access (CSMA)-type random access
algorithms can achieve the maximum possible throughput in ad hoc wireless networks …

We consider a star-topology wireless network for status update where a central node
collects status data from a large number of distributed machine-type terminals that share a …

Carrier Sense Multiple Access (CSMA) has been widely used as a medium access control
(MAC) scheme in wireless networks mainly due to its simple and totally distributed …

This paper provides proofs of the rate stability, Harris recurrence, and ε-optimality of carrier
sense multiple access (CSMA) algorithms where the random access (or backoff) parameter …

There has recently been considerable interest in design of low-complexity, myopic,
distributed and stable scheduling algorithms for constrained queueing network models that …

Glauber dynamics is a powerful tool to generate randomized, approximate solutions to
combinatorially difficult problems. It has been recently used to design distributed carrier …

Recently, it has been shown that CSMA algorithms which use queue length-based link
weights can achieve throughput optimality in wireless networks. In particular, a key result by …