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...

Broadband satellite communication networks operating at Ka band (20-30 GHz) play a very important role in today’s worldwide telecommunication infrastructure. The problem, however, is that rain can be the most dominant impairment factor for radio propagation in these frequency bands. Allocating frequency bandwidth based on the worst-case rain fading leads to the waste of the frequency spectrum d...

Area based measures of deprivation are used for resource allocation and research. In both these uses there is continuing debate about the likely proportion of deprived people who would be missed if area based indices were used for interventions or targeting resources. This report uses the same source deprivation variables at area and individual levels to quantify the degree of deprivation heter...

Cloud computing is the most integral part of todays world of computing. It provides various advantageous like reliability, economical, pay as you use, on demand service. Cloud hides the ambiguity of different hardware through virtualization technology. Virtualization is the foundation of cloud, it provides Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Software as a Service (SaaS) and Platform as a Servic...

In a multi-cell scenario, the inter-cell interference (ICI) is detrimental in achieving the intended system performance, in particular for the edge users. There is paucity of work available in literature on ICI coordination (ICIC) for relay-assisted cellular networks (RACN). In this paper, we do a survey on the ICIC schemes in cellular networks and RACN. We then propose a self-organized resourc...

In a multi-cell scenario, the inter-cell interference (ICI) is detrimental in achieving the intended system performance, in particular for the edge users. There is paucity of work available in literature on ICI coordination (ICIC) for relay-assisted cellular networks (RACN). In this paper, we do a survey on the ICIC schemes in cellular networks and RACN. We then propose a self-organized resourc...

Land cover mapping for large regions often employs satellite images of medium to coarse spatial resolution, which complicates mapping of discrete classes. Class memberships, which estimate the proportion of each class for every pixel, have been suggested as an alternative. This paper compares different strategies of training data allocation for discrete and continuous land cover mapping using c...

In this paper, a methodology based on system modelling and optimization is developed to assess forest fire risk over a regional area paying special attention to Wildland Urban Interface. To this end, a forest fuel moisture model and a propagation model are developed, in order to obtain a dynamic evaluation of the risk. On the basis pf the risk values over the whole area considered, it is possib...

the market for carbon dioxide rights emerged as one of the tools applicable to the implementation of the measures adopted by the kyoto protocol to combat climate change. in this paper we analyze the case of spain, because their peculiar administrative division into seventeen autonomous communities, it is relevant to a detailed study of emissions and allowances of the industries that make up ...

Multi-User Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (MU-OFDM) is an efficient technique for achieving high downlink capacity in high-speed communication systems. A key issue in MU-OFDM is the allocation of the OFDM subcarriers and power to users sharing the channel. In this paper a proportional rate-adaptive resource allocation algorithm for MU-OFDM is presented. Subcarrier and power allocati...