Review of some fundamental approaches for power control in wireless networks

An advanced tutorial on power control issues in wireless networks is provided, covering work published since circa 1992, the beginning of the systematic study of the area, to this date. We present and comment on what we consider are the most fundamental contributions in the area pointing out relationships and differences in approaches and their consequences and applicability. We consider wireless networks as collections of directly interfering wireless links. I.e., we consider single hop configurations, but we do not assume that there is necessarily a centralized control, or a single common goal for the network. We explicitly deal with voice and “data” networks, which have differences in perspective that lead to different methodologies.