Heightened competition for freshwater supplies has intensified water scarcity and compromised the ability of freshwater ecosystems to generate goods and services required for human well-being. Water markets and accompanying water rights reforms have featured prominently in the establishment of robust water allocations to restore freshwater ecosystem health. Because many freshwater ecosystems ha...

We show that the popular water-filling algorithm for maximizing the mutual information in parallel Gaussian channels is sub-modular. The sub-modularity of water-filling algorithm is then used to derive online basestation allocation algorithms, where mobile users are assigned to one of many possible basestations immediately and irrevocably upon arrival without knowing the future user information...

many factors affect wastewater management and utilization plans’ success with any change occurring in any of these factors leading to various feedbacks on other elements of wastewater use system. hence, development of a model with the capability of simulation of all factors, aspects and interactions that affect wastewater utilization indispensable. the objective followed in this study was to mo...

In this thesis, we develop an subcarrier transmission suboptimal power allocation algorithm and an underlay subcarrier transmission optimal power allocation algorithm for the orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM)-based cognitive radio (CR) systems with different statistical interference constraints imposed by different primary users (PUs). Given the fact that the interference constr...

Exploitation of the Alberta oil sands, the world's third-largest crude oil reserve, requires fresh water from the Athabasca River, an allocation of 4.4% of the mean annual flow. This allocation takes into account seasonal fluctuations but not long-term climatic variability and change. This paper examines the decadal-scale variability in river discharge in the Athabasca River Basin (ARB) with (i...

in the present study, water allocation of latian dam between agricultural products was evaluated by using inexact two-stage optimization model and the final results were compared to a fuzzy interval. data were collected from the regional water and agricultural organization of tehran province for 1991 to 2009 years. the results showed that by using interval fuzzy programming, 63%, 69%, 49% and 3...

introduction: in the present study, dealing with water deficit challenges for gorgan river basin has been considered. golestan province's economy is dependent on agriculture but the occurrence of drought periods reduced the agricultural production and consequently the region's economy is in crisis. therefore, performing studies for programming and management of the water resources of the provin...