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This volume contains papers based on invited talks given at the 2005 IMA Summer Workshop on Wireless Communications, held at the Institute for Mathematics and Its Applications, University of Minnesota, June 22 - July 1, 2005. It presents some of the highlights of the workshop, and collects papers covering a broad spectrum of important and pressing issues in wireless communications.

Wireless Communications

Foreword.- Preface.- A survey of scheduling theory in wireless data networks.- Wireless channel parameters maximizing TCP throughput.- Heavy traffc methods in wireless systems: towards modeling heavy tails and long range dependence.- Structural results on optimal transmission scheduling over dynamical fading channels: a contrained Markov decision process approach.- Entropy, inference, and channel coding.- Optimization of wireless multiple antenna communication system throughput via quantized rate control.- Communication strategies and coding for relaying.- Scheduling and control of multi-node mobile communications systems with randomly-varying channels by stability methods.- A game theoretic approach to interference management in cognitive networks.- A unifying architecture for maximal connectivity in heterogeneous ad hoc networks.- Overlay networks for wireless ad hoc networks.- Dimensionality reduction, compression and quantization for distributed estimation with wireless sensor networks.- Fair allocation of a wireless fading channel: an auction approach.- Modelling and stability of FAST TCP.- List of workshop participants.