Nonlinear Programming in Telecommunications.

Telecommunications have always been the subject of application for advanced mathematical techniques. In this chapter, we review classical nonlinear programming approaches to modeling and solving certain problems in telecommunications. We emphasize the common aspects of telecommunications and road networks, and indicate that several lessons are to be learned from the field of transportation science, where game theoretic and equilibrium approaches have been studied for more than forty years. Several research directions are also stated. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]