Algorithmic discrete mathematics plays a key role in the development of information
and communication technologies, and methods that arise in computer science, mathematics
and operations research – in particular in algorithms, computational complexity, distributed
computing and optimization – are vital to modern services such as mobile telephony,
online banking and VoIP.
This book examines communication networking from a mathematical viewpoint. The contributing
authors took part in the European COST action 293 – a four-year program of multidisciplinary
research on this subject. In this book they offer introductory overviews and state-of-the-art
assessments of current and future research in the fields of broadband, optical, wireless
and ad hoc networks. Particular topics of interest are design, optimization, robustness
and energy consumption.
The book will be of interest to graduate students, researchers and practitioners in
the areas of networking, theoretical computer science, operations research, distributed
computing and mathematics.
