This article studied rate allocation in collaborative transmission over heterogeneous wireless access networks. With the introduced pricing function, which uses the occupied spectrum to describe the cost in data transmission, rate allocation is formulated as a concave optimization problem and the explicit solution has been obtained. Instead of transmitting through all available networks in purs...

Adding unlicensed spectrum, such as the recent opening of the television white spaces in the US, has the potential to benefit customers by increasing competition, but may also increase congestion. In an earlier paper, we presented a model for studying the effects of adding unlicensed spectrum to an existing allocation of licensed spectrum among incumbent service providers. Assuming that custome...

Due to the overall growing demand on the network resources and tight restrictions on the power consumption, the requirements to the long-term scalability, cost and performance capabilities appear together with the deployment of novel switching architectures. The load-balancing switch proposed in [1,2] satisfies to the above requirements due to a simple distributed control and good performance c...

We study a particular multiagent resource allocation problem with indivisible, but sharable resources. In our model, the utility of an agent for using a bundle of resources is the difference between the valuation of that bundle and a congestion cost (or delay), a figure formed by adding up the individual congestion costs of each resource in the bundle. The valuation and the delay can be agent-d...

We survey some recent results on modeling, analysis and design of congestion control schemes for the Internet. Using tools from convex optimization and control theory, we show that congestion controllers can be viewed as distributed algorithms for achieving fair resource allocation among competing sources. We illustrate the use of simple mathematical models to analyze the behavior of currently ...

Perhaps the greatest technological innovation of the next several decades will be universal access and utilization of the Internet. Already congestion is becoming a serious impediment to efficient utilization. We introduce a stochastic equilibrium concept for a general mathematical model of the Internet, and demonstrate that the efficient social welfare maximizing stochastic allocation of Inter...