Preliminary Study of Resource Allocation in Wireless Communications.

Wireless communications remain a vital part of our economy as it is a key enabler of information exchange between billions of people around the world. However, the current technology cannot meet the demands of the future (i.e., explosive growth in the number of devices, better coverage, and connection rate). For future wireless communications, the key technology that has the potential to enhance connectivity for billions of users is referred to as Cell-Free Massive Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (CF-mMIMO). One of the many challenges in CF-mMIMO is how to efficiently manage limited resources in a way that maximizes the performance of the network - the so-called resource allocation problem in wireless communications. This work explores computational and mathematical tools that will tackle some of the resource allocation problems in future wireless networks.