Scheduling, Access Control, and Pricing in Wireless Networks

I have primarily worked on this broad topic between 2005--2015, but have recently resumed working on it again in the context on 5G+/mmWave networks. My key research papers on this topic are listed below, divided into two sub-topics:

      Scheduling and Medium Access Control in Multi-hop Wireless Networks

1. K. Kar, S. Sarkar, L. Tassiulas, Achieving Proportionally Fair Rates using Local Information in Aloha Networks, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Vol . 49, No. 10, October 2004, pp. 1858-1862.
2. X. Wang and K. Kar, Throughput Modelling and Fairness Issues in CSMA/CA Based Ad-Hoc Networks, Proceedings of Infocom 2005, Miami , March 2005. 
3. X. Wang and K. Kar, Cross-Layer Rate Optimization in Multi-Hop Wireless Networks with Random Access, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, Vol. 24, No. 8, pp. 1548-1559, August 2006.
4. P. Chaporkar, K. Kar, X. Luo and S. Sarkar, Throughput and Fairness Guarantees Through Maximal Scheduling in Wireless Networks, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 54, No. 2, February 2008.
5. X. Wang, K. Kar and J-S. Pang, Lexicographic Max-Min Fair Rate Allocation in Random Access Wireless Networks, Proceedings of the 45th IEEE Conf. On Decision and Control (CDC), San Diego, December 2006.
6. K. Kar, X. Luo and S. Sarkar, Throughput-optimal Scheduling in Multichannel Access Point Networks under Infrequent Channel Measurements, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, Vol. 7, No. 7, pp. 2619-2629, July 2008.
7. S. Sarkar and K. Kar, Queue Length Stability under Slowly Convergent Traffic using Sequential Maximal Scheduling, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Vol. 53, No. 10, pp. 2292-2306, November 2008.
8. X. Luo and K. Kar, Dynamic Channel Assignment and Power Allocation in Multichannel Wireless Networks with Per-user Bandwidth Guarantees, Proceedings of The 9th Intl. Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc, and Wireless Networks (WiOpt), Princeton, NJ, May 2011.
9. K. Kar, S. Sarkar, A. Ghavami and X. Luo, Delay Guarantees for Throughput-Optimal Wireless Link Scheduling, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Vol. 57, No. 11, November 2012.

      Wireless Spectrum Pricing, Contracting and Trading

1. P.  Muthuswamy, K. Kar, A. Gupta, S. Sarkar and G. Kasbekar, Portfolio Optimization in Secondary Spectrum Markets, EAI Endorsed Transactions on Wireless Spectrum 15(3), July 2015. [Shorter version appeared in the WiOpt 2011 conference.]
2. G. Kasbekar, S. Sarkar, K. Kar, P. Kumar and A. Gupta, Dynamic Contract Trading in Spectrum Markets, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Vol. 59, no. 10, pp. 2856-2862, October 2014. [Shorter version appeared in Allerton 2010 conference.]
3. Pablo J.C. de Carvalho, Aparna Gupta and K. Kar, Hierarchical Spectrum Market and the Design of Contracts for Mobile Providers, Mobile Computing and Communications Review, Vol. 17, No. 4, October 2013.
4. A. Gupta, K. Kar and P. K. Muthuswamy, Design and Pricing of Derivative Contracts in a Spectrum Market, Journal of Financial Engineering, Volume 02, Issue 01, March 2015.