Throughput optimal resource management of cooperative networks with mobile clouds

We study a problem of optimal resource allocation in cooperative communication network with finite state fading channels and queueing. The control problem is to assign resources dynamically within the cloud of mobile users subject to the longterm average power constraint in order to stabilize the queues and maximize the long-term average throughput of the system. By modeling the problem as a finite horizon Markov Decision Problem (MDP), we propose a dynamic control policy that making opportunistic cooperative control decisions adaptively allocates resources over time varying fading channels and maximizes the long-term average throughput of the system. In addition, the concept of inter system networking (InSyNet) is introduced to provide performance bound for the resource allocation policies of the cooperative communication network (CCN).