METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING RESOURCE ALLOCATION USING UTILITY-BASED CROSS-LAYER OPTIMIZATION

摘要

An approach is provided for allocating resources in a communication system. Queuing state information of a queue and channel state information of a channel of a wireless network are determined. Transmission resources are allocated to wireless devices. Each device is configured to operate over the wireless network, wherein the allocation is performed according to a utility-based cross-layer resource management framework that transforms a utility function into an equivalent bipartite graph to concurrently maximize throughput and fairness in servicing the queue.