This survey reviews the forty-year history of research on transportation revenue
management (also known as yield management). We cover developments in forecasting …

Network protocols in layered architectures have historically been obtained on an ad hoc
basis, and many of the recent cross-layer designs are also conducted through piecemeal …

This book provides one of the first unified accounts of the dynamic aspects involved in the
strategic behavior in queues. The author presents the material in an easy style with mostly …

The curse of dimensionality gives rise to prohibitive computational requirements that render
infeasible the exact solution of large-scale stochastic control problems. We study an efficient …

Traditionally engineers devised communication services without reference to how they
should be priced. In today's environment pricing is a very complex subject and in practice …

In cloud computing, a provider leases its computing resources in the form of virtual machines
to users, and a price is charged for the period they are used. Though static pricing is the …

Traditionally, network operators have used simple flat-rate broadband data plans for both
wired and wireless network access. But today, with the popularity of mobile devices and …

We investigate dynamic policies for allocating scarce inventory to stochastic demand for
multiple fare classes, in a network environment so as to maximize total expected revenues …

Network utility maximization (NUM) problem formulations provide an important approach to
conduct network resource allocation and to view layering as optimization decomposition. In …

Cellular networks are facing severe traffic overloads due to the proliferation of smart
handheld devices and traffic-hungry applications. A cost-effective and practical solution is to …