| Reviews |
| - 'This book is intended for researchers and graduate students in mathematics and computing, and it should be of interest to service providers and spectrum regulators.' - Zentralblatt MATH
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| Description | | - Comprehensive introduction to problems faced by radio spectrum users
- Contains state-of-the-art models, effective solution methods and economic modelling
- Discusses regulatory political issues
| Radio channel assignment has attracted considerable interest over many years, spanning disciplines that include radio engineering, electrical engineering, physics, mathematics, computer science and economics. Over the last few years, there has been a rapid growth in the demand for wireless communications services, which has in turn created a need for Governments and industry to develop sound
theory, methods, and computational tools for the effective and efficient management of the spectrum. This book contains a collection of contributions from those working in the field, which explore the various aspects of current research in channel radio assignment. The collection includes several chapters concerned with developing a sound theoretical framework for channel assignment. Other
chapters are concerned with developing state-of-the-art computational algorithms for solving channel assignment problems, and two chapters discuss the regulatory aspects of spectrum management and its history. Also included are the modelling and efficient solution of network design problems, which are becoming increasingly important in wireless networks. Finally a chapter bridging the regulatory
and mathematical issues describes the benefit of economic modelling in radio spectrum management.
This book illustrates a range of mathematical and computational tools, including graph colouring, graph labelling, linear and nonlinear optimization, meta-heuristics, constraint satisfaction and multidisciplinary optimization. It is aimed at practising engineers, university academics with an
interest in the area, and Government agencies responsible for the management of the radio spectrum. This title is the latest in the Oxford Lecture Series in Mathematics and its Applications, which aims to publish short books aimed at first-year graduates and academics in mathematics and related subjects. The Series focuses on future directions of research with emphasis on attractive genuine
applications of the subject, particularly topics in the natural sciences. |
Readership: Research mathematicians, computer scientists, engineers and economists.
| Contents |
Contributors
1.
Background
,
Stephen Hurley and Robert Leese
2.
Introduction to spectrum management
,
Ryszard Struzak
3.
Meta-heuristics and channel assignment
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Stephen Hurley and Derek Smith
4.
Lower bounds for channel assignment
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Derek Smith, Stuart Allen, and Stephen Hurley
5.
Channel assignment on infinite sets under frequency-distance constraints
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Jan van den Heuvel and Colin McDiarmid
6.
Constraint satisfaction
,
Dave Cohen and Peter Jeavons
7.
Cell and frequency planning
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Stuart Allen, Stephen Hurley, and Roger Whitaker
8.
Economic aspects of radio channel assignment
,
Robert Leese
Bibliography
Index
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| Authors, editors,
and contributors |
Edited by Robert Leese, Smith Institute for Industrial Mathematics and System Engineering and St Catherine's College, Oxford and
Stephen Hurley, Department of Computer Science, Cardiff University
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