Ultra-wideband (UWB) is an appealing transmission technology for short-range, bandwidth demanded wireless communications. With the data rate of several hundred megabits per second, UWB demonstrates great potential in supporting multimedia streams such as high-definition television (HDTV), voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), and console gaming in office or home networks, known as the wireless p...

A classic topic in economic theory is the organization of economic activity. While the roots of this topic go back to discussions of the appropriate role of the state in a market economy by the Mercantilists and Adam Smith’sWealth of Nations, it became the central issue in the 1930’s debates concerning the possibility of efficient resource allocation in a socialist economy. In this debate it wa...

This monograph presents a unified framework for energy efficiency maximization in wireless networks via fractional programming theory. The definition of energy efficiency is introduced, with reference to single-user and multi-user wireless networks, and it is observed how the problem of resource allocation for energy efficiency optimization is naturally cast as a fractional program. An extensiv...

Decentralized Control of Stochastic Dynamic Systems with Applications to Resource Allocation and Portfolio Management by Huaning Cai Doctor of Philosophy in Engineering Industrial Engineering & Operations Research University of California, Berkeley Professor Andrew E.B. Lim, Chair Modern engineering and social systems are often too complex to be managed by a centralized agent. Instead, such sys...

in this paper, downlink resource allocation for a sparse code multiple access (scma) based heterogeneous  cellular networks (hcn) is investigated. the main aim of this paper is to obtain joint power allocation and codebook assignment to achieve the least total system transmit power. in this regard, the proposed objective function is formulated as total transmit power subject to users minimum ra...

Despite the wide utilization of cloud computing (e.g., services, applications, and resources), some of the services, applications, and smart devices are not able to fully benefit from this attractive cloud computing paradigm due to the following issues: (1) smart devices might be lacking in their capacity (e.g., processing, memory, storage, battery, and resource allocation), (2) they might be l...

In this article, we propose an incentive-based resource allocation scheme for wireless relay networks. The aim of this article is to construct efficient multicast routes that serve as many users as possible with a given resource budget. First, we introduce a new resource allocation problem called Multi-Hop Multicast Maximization (MHMM). Then, we present our heuristic Incentive-Based Route Const...

ions in the management of physical infrastructures gives more flexibility to users in controlling the environment in which their applications run. Given the recent efforts to improve current virtualization mechanisms and better support HPC workloads, i.e., by virtualizing specialized network devices like Infiniband [72], using virtualization in HPC centers becomes feasible. In this section we s...

Distributed resource allocation is a very important and complex problem in emerging horizontal dynamic cloud federation (HDCF) platforms, where different cloud providers (CPs) collaborate dynamically to gain economies of scale and enlargements of their virtual machine (VM) infrastructure capabilities in order to meet consumer requirements. HDCF platforms differ from the existing vertical supply...

Changes in our electricity supply chain are causing a paradigm shift from centralized control towards decentralized energy management. Within the framework of decentralized energy management, devices that offer flexibility in their load profile play an important role. These devices schedule their flexible load profile based on steering signals received from centralized controllers. The problem ...