For Wireless Personal Area Network (WPAN) systems, resource allocation between several users within a piconet and the coexistence of several piconets are very important points to take into consideration for the optimization of high data rate Ultra Wide Band (UWB) systems. To improve the performance of the Multi Band OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplex) solution proposed by the Multi B...

A reliable model for Location-Allocation (LA) is proposed based on 0-1 mixed integer programming model presented by Baumol-Wolfe. A heuristic algorithm (HA) based on wavelet analysis is used to solve LA problem, which incorporates different customers’ demands into a minimum wrap-net. It indicates that customers are allocated to one facility or one cluster if they satisfy that the distance is ne...

Telecommunication networks are now an interconnection of competitive operators that need to cooperate to ensure end-to-end delivery of traffic. Inter-domain agreements have to be performed, and pricing is seen as a relevant way to reward intermediate domains for forwarding the traffic of others and such that the network can be efficiently self-managed, in a way as decentralized as possible. In ...

In this paper, we show that the notion of most regular word in the language formed by all of the words containing a xed number of each letter of an alphabet can be applied to nd the optimal resource allocation policy of the generic system composed by two processes sharing a resource. This system will be modeled as a Petri net. This result can be partially generalized to non periodic allocation ...

We consider a production economy ‘à la Mirrlees’ to be one in which the earning capability of individuals is endogenous. Individuals are heterogeneous with respect to their preferences and their propensity to benefit from a given investment in human capital. We look for allocation rules satisfying properties that capture the objective of equalizing opportunities. We characterize four allocation...

We propose an allocation rule that takes into account the importance of players and their links and characterizes it for a fixed network. Unlike previous rules, our characterization does not require component additivity. Next, we extend it to flexible networks à la Jackson (2005). Finally, we provide a comparison with other fixed (network Myerson and Position value) and flexible network (player...

The conflict between exploration and exploitation is a well-known problem in machine learning and other areas of artificial intelligence. Learning Automata (LA) Thathachar & Sastry (2004); Tsetlin (1973) capture the essence of this conflict, and have thus occupied researchers for over forty years. Initially, LA were used to model biological systems, however, in the last decades they have also a...

As much as 40% of live biomass in coniferous forests is located belowground, yet the effect of tree density on biomass allocation is poorly understood. We developed allometric equations using traditional harvesting techniques to estimate coarse root biomass for ≈13-year-old postfire lodgepole pine trees (Pinus contorta Dougl. ex Loud. var. latifolia Engelm.). We then used these equations, plus ...

Growth, allocation to woody root biomass, wood properties, leaf physiology, and shoot morphology were examined in a 47-year-old loblolly pine (Pinus taeda L.) density trial located in Maui, Hawaii, to determine if stands continued to carry the high density, basal area, and volume reported at younger ages and to identify potential factors controlling expression of maximum growth potential. Basal...