This document summarizes a research paper about admission control and routing algorithms for multi-hop wireless networks that provide quality of service guarantees for flows requesting a pre-specified bandwidth. The paper develops an optimal admission control and routing algorithm that has performance close to an offline algorithm with complete future knowledge. The algorithm makes no assumptions about flow arrival patterns and can be implemented in a distributed manner. It also proves this algorithm is asymptotically optimal with respect to competitive ratio, a metric that measures performance compared to an offline algorithm. Finally, the paper discusses how the algorithm can be modified to allow use of standard shortest-path algorithms for distributed implementation.
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