Topology Control In Wireless

Recent emergence of affordable, portable wireless communication and computation devices and concomitant advances in the communication infrastructure have resulted in the rapid growth of mobile wireless networks. On one hand, this has led to the exponential growth of the cellular network, which is based on the combination of wired and wireless technologies. Nowadays, the number of cellular network users is approaching two billion worldwide (expected at end 2005). Although the research and development efforts devoted to traditional wireless networks are still considerable, the interest of the scientific and industrial community in the realm of telecommunications has recently shifted to more challenging scenarios in which a group of mobile units equipped with radio transceivers communicate without any fixed infrastructure