Design and Implementation of Practical Schedulers for M2M Uplink Networks

Akshay Kumar is currently a Systems Engineer in the ground systems architecture group at VT iDirect, USA. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Virginia Tech. in 2016. His research interests include designing efficient packet schedulers in wired/wireless networks, Quality-of-Service in cellular/satellite networks and network optimization for satellite networks. Dr. Ahmed Abdelhadi is a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Virginia Tech. He leads research projects in the areas of wireless systems, cyber physical systems, and security. At Virginia Tech, he joined as a research faculty research groups working on research related to security and privacy such as Hume Center for National Security and Technology, and wireless systems such as Wireless@Virginia Tech research group. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin. Hecoauthored more than 50 journal and conference papers, and 5 books in these research topics. He is also a senior member of IEEE.Dr. Charles Clancy is an Associate Professor, Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, at Virginia Tech. He is also Director, Hume Center for National Security and Technology; Co-Director, NSF Security and Software Engineering Research Center; and L-3 Communications Faculty Fellow in Cybersecurity, College of Engineering.

• Chapter1: Introduction.- Chapter2: Background information.- Chapter3: Delay-Efficient Multiclass Packet Scheduler.- Chapter4: Delay-Optimal Multiclass Packet Scheduler.- Chapter5: Delay-Optimal Multitier Multiclass Packet Scheduler.- Chapter6: Conclusion and Future Work.