ABSTRACT
Resource deployment problem analyzes how to set the locations for deploying resources with the best performance and lowest cost. The resources can be static nodes and moving nodes. These resources can provide services for a specific area or some customers. This chapter introduces the resource deployment problem. It provides some real-world applications and fundamental issues of node deployment problem, and research progress of node deployment modeling and methods. This chapter provides a basic foundation for the whole work and gives the main issue and challenges which lead to the following chapters.
