chapter 1 Background on Networking -- chapter 2 Background -- chapter 3 Congestion Control in ATM Networks and the Internet -- chapter 4 Admission Conrtroller Design for High-Speed Networks: A Hybrid System Approach -- chapter 5 Distributed Power Control of Wireless Cellular and Peer-to-Peer Networks -- chapter 6 Distributed Power Control and Rate Adaptation for Wireless Ad Hoc Networks -- chapter 7 Distributed Fair Scheduling in Wireles Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks -- chapter 8 Optimized Energy and Delay-Based Routing in Wireless Ad hoc and Sensor Networks -- chapter 9 Predictive Congestion Control for Wireless Sensor Networks -- chapter 10 0 Adaptive and Probabilistic Power Control Scheme for RFID Reader Networks.