this paper describes the design of a 2x2 micro strip patch antenna array in the frequency of 9.5ghz for radar applications, using substrate integrated waveguide, siw, for feeding network. the micro strip patches are aperture-coupled with the feeding network of siw. the feeding network consisting of a perpendicular coax-to-siw transition and two y-junction power dividers. the antenna is simulate...

fouling is one of the main parameters in design of any exchanger. ignoring this parameter causes problems such as overheating or under- heating of process streams. in this article a heat exchanger network was designed using process streams data in cdu of tehran refinery. then using tema fouling factors, network exchangers were designed and area and cost were estimated. by changing fouling facto...

High amounts of waste paper are disposed of every year in Iran posing the health hazard and environmental damages instead of being recovered. Collection, recovery and proper disposal of waste paper without damaging the environment need to design an efficient closed-loop supply chain network. The main objective of this paper is introducing a bi-objective, multi-echelon, multi-product and single-...

Various methods have been used to economically design wastewater and stormwater collection systems. In this article, Discrete Differential Dynamic Programming (DDDP) which is a subsection of dynamic programming (DP) was used. For each pipe network, various alternatives such as depth and slope of pipe laying and various diameters could be considered to satisfy hydraulic and engineering constrain...

Supply chain network design in perishable product has become a challenging task due to its short life time, spoilage of product in degradation nature and stochastic market demand. This paper focused on designing and optimizing model for perishable product in stochastic demand, which comprises multiple levels from producer, local collector, wholesaler and retailers. The ultimate goal is to optim...

Advance reservation services are being used by a range of applications to schedule connection bandwidth resources at future time intervals. To date many different algorithms have been developed to support various point-to-point reservation models. However, with expanding data distribution needs there is a need to schedule more complex service types to provide connectivity between multiple sites...

This document discusses the aspects of network design.First a brief introduction of network design will be given.Then various types of assignment techniques will be discussed including the mathematical formulation and numerical illustration of the important ones.Then the concept of bilevel programming and few examples will be presented.Finally one such example, namely the network capacity expan...

Traditional design rules for cellular networks are not directly applicable to code division multiple access (CDMA) networks where intercell interference is not mitigated by cell placement and careful frequency planning. For transmission quality requirements, a minimum signal-to-interference ratio (SIR) must be achieved. The base-station location, its pilot-signal power (which determines the siz...

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When designing or upgrading a communication network, operators are faced with a major issue, as uncertainty on communication demands makes it difficult to correctly provision the network capacity. When a probability on traffic matrices is given, finding the cheapest capacity allocation that guarantees, within a prescribed level of confidence, that each arc can support the traffic demands peaks ...