The continuous advancement of integrated photonics demands compact, reconfigurable, and multifunctional building blocks capable of supporting a wide range of optical signal processing functionalities within a single platform. ...

Relay-assisted cooperative communication exploits spatial diversity to combat wireless fading, and is an appealing technology for next generation wireless systems. Several relay cooperation protocols have been proposed in ...

Advances in optical fibre transmission have created interest in a class of multiple access local and metropolitan area networks called unidirectional bus networks. In the absence of medium access control, the nodes closer ...

In this thesis, we consider optimal control problems arising in high-speed integrated communication networks with Quality of Service (QOS) constraints. Integrated networks are expected to carry a large variety of traffic ...

We consider the problem of designing revenue-optimal mechanisms for selling two heterogeneous items to a single buyer. Designing a revenue-optimal mechanism for selling a single item is simple: Set a threshold price based ...

This thesis studies two problems related to cellular resource provisioning. The first problem deals with mobile-assisted data offloading, and the second problem analyzes network partitioning for differential pricing and ...

Telecom Service Providers (TSPs) were traditionally dependent on physical devices to provide end-to-end communication. The services provided were high quality and stable but low in agility and hardware-dependent. As the ...

Cognitive radio (CR) promises to significantly improve the utilization of scarce wireless spectrum. In the underlay mode of CR, which is the focus of the thesis, a secondary user (SU) can simultaneously transmit on the ...

Device-to-Device (D2D) communication, which enables direct link communication between nodes without going through the infrastructure, has received considerable attention in recent years, particularly in the context of ...