Resource Management and Pricing in Networks

I hereby declare that I am the sole author of this thesis. This is a true copy of the thesis, including any required final revisions, as accepted by my examiners. Parts of this thesis will appear in [1, 2, 3]. I understand that my thesis may be made electronically available to the public. ii Resource management is important for network design and deployment. Resource management and allocation have been studied under a wide variety of scenarios — routing in wired networks, scheduling in cellular networks, multiplexing, switching, and channel access in opportunistic networks are but a few examples. In this dissertation, we revisit resource management in the context of routing and scheduling in multihop wireless networks and pricing in single resource systems. The first issue addressed is of delays in multihop wireless networks. Th