stochastic network optimization with application to communication and queueing

ThistextiswrittentoteachthetheoryofLyapunovdriftandLyapunovoptimizationforstochasticnetworkoptimization.Itassumesonlythatthereaderisfamiliarwithbasicprobabilityconcepts(suchasexpectationsandthelawoflargenumbers).FamiliaritywithMarkovchainsandwithstandard(non-stochastic)optimizationisu