This is the first book that provides readers with a deep technical overview of recent advances in resource management for wireless networks at different layers of the protocol stack. The subject is explored in various wireless networks, such as ad-hoc wireless networks, 3G/4G cellular, IEEE 802.11, and Bluetooth personal area networks.

"This is the first book that provides readers with a deep technical overview of recent advances in resource management for wireless networks at different layers of the protocol stack. The subject is explored in various wireless networks, such as ad hoc wireless networks, 3G/4G cellular, IEEE 802.11, and Bluetooth personal area networks.

Resource Management Architectures.- QoS for Multimedia Services in Wireless Networks.- Cross-Layer Architectures for Bandwidth Management in Wireless Networks.- Resource Management and Connection Admission Control in Wireless Networks.- Channel Allocation and Scheduling.- Real-Time Guarantees in Wireless Networks.- Fair Real-Time Scheduling over a Wireless LAN.- Inter-Domain Radio Resource Management for Wireless LANs.- High Performance Broadband Wireless Infrastructure Extension Networks.- Truthful Computing in Wireless Networks.- Medium Access Control.- Resource Allocation of Spatial Time Division Multiple Access in Multi-hop Radio Networks.- QoS Enhancement for the IEEE 802.11e Distributed Wireless LANs.- Time-Domain, Frequency-Domain, and Network Level Resource Management Schemes in Bluetooth Networks.- Energy-Efficient MAC Layer protocols in Ad Hoc Networks.- Routing and Resource Discovery.- QoS-Based Routing in Wireless Mobile Networks.- Quality of Service Routing in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks.- Topology Management of Hierarchical Mobile Ad Hoc Networks.- Efficient Resource Discovery in Wireless AdHoc Networks: Contacts Do Help.- Hybrid Routing Protocols for Mobile Ad-hoc Networks.- Localization in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks.- Broadcast and Multicast.- Energy-Efficient Broadcasting in Wireless Mobile Ad Hoc Networks.- Energy-Efficient Multicast Protocols.- IP3S: a Framework for Power-Conserving Multicast and Broadcast Algorithms in Static Wireless Ad Hoc Networks.- Radio Link and Transport.- Radio Link Protocols for 3G CDMA Systems.- A Survey on Improving TCP Performance over Wireless Networks.