Institut Eurécom trains high-level researchers and engineers for the information society. This education is provided by a faculty strongly committed to research activities in communications

It was a warm February evening (2008) in Bangalore that I met Dr. Eitan Altman the first time. He had just offered my wife, Kavitha, a post doc position at INRIA and wanted to know what were my plans. I was intending to take a sabbatical from my job to support my wife’s research interests, when, he presented an irresistible offer: to be his student!. A dormant ambition, a desire to learn and the challenges of an untrodden path beckoned me to a world of research. It is with great pleasure that i thank Eitan for giving me this opportunity. His ideas, encouragement and support have gone a long way in understanding new topics and trends in wireless and networking research. I would like to thank Dr. Philippe Nain for accepting me into the Maestro Group at INRIA, Sophia Antipolis and encouraging me to actively participate in group meetings, conferences and workshops. I would like to acknowledge Laurant Thomas for accepting me to be a part of the INRIA-Bell Labs initiative on Self Organizing Networks and proposing a very interesting and happening research topic. I appreciate Dr. Vinod Kumar’s encouragement and initiative to make me feel comfortable and settle down with research as well as life in