Layer separability of wireless networks

Alejandro Ribeiro, Georgios B. Giannakis
2008 2008 42nd Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems  
A general wireless networking problem is formulated to jointly optimize end-to-end user rates, routes, link capacities, transmitted power, frequency and power allocation across subcarriers and fading states. It is proved that wireless networking problems in the presence of fading, while non-convex, have zero Lagrangian duality gap. A consequence of this result is the optimality of separating the problem in (the conventional) layers.
doi:10.1109/ciss.2008.4558633 dblp:conf/ciss/RibeiroG08 fatcat:75dgm3spnvgzfmmj5htkkit6oy