the continuous spread of distributed energy resources (ders) such as combined heating and power (chp), diesel generators, boilers and renewable energy sources provide an effective solution to energy related problems to serve the power and heat demands with minimum cost. moreover, the ders may play a significant role for supplying power and heat in rural areas, where grid electricity is not avai...

The support of delay-sensitive applications like VoIP, video conferencing, video streaming, etc. on scheduled mesh networks requires careful configuration of routing and scheduling. We formulate a delay-optimal joint routing and scheduling optimization problem that minimizes the maximum average delay perceived by any flow under the physical interference model. Due to the non-convex nature of th...

background and objectives: operating room (or) scheduling is key to optimal operating room productivity. the significant uncertainty associated with surgery duration renders scheduling of surgical operation a challenging task. this paper proposes a novel computational stochastic model to optimize scheduling of surgeries with uncertain durations. the model considers various surgical operation co...

This paper investigates how to mitigate the impact of adjacent channel interference (ACI) on vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) broadcast communication by scheduling and power control. The optimal joint scheduling and power control problem, with the objective to maximize the number of connected vehicles, is formulated as a mixed integer programming problem with a linear objective and a quadratic constrai...

We focus on a three-stage supply chain problem for fast moving consumer goods including a supplier, a manufacturer and customers. There are different orders over identical cycles, to be processed in production site. The problem is to find a joint cyclic schedule of raw material procurement and job scheduling minimized the total cost comprised of raw material ordering cost and holding cost, prod...

My Ph.D. research is focused on the resource allocation problem in wireless networks in the presence of flow-level dynamics. The resource allocation problem is a key problem in wireless networks due to limited bandwidth and extensive noises and interferences. I first investigated the scheduling problem in wireless cellular networks, and developed throughput-optimal scheduling algorithms, for si...

this paper presents a simplifiedlagrangian multiplier based algorithm to solve the fixed head hydrothermalscheduling problem. in fixed head hydrothermal scheduling problem, waterdischarge rate is modeled as quadratic function of hydropower generation andfuel cost is modeled as quadratic function of thermal power generation. thepower output of each hydro unit varies with the rate of water discha...

JOINT BUFFER MANAGEMENT AND SCHEDULING FOR INPUT QUEUED SWITCHES by Dequan Liu Input queued (IQ) switches are highly scalable and they have been the focus of many studies from academia and industry. Many scheduling algorithms have been proposed for IQ switches. However, they do not consider the buffer space requirement inside an IQ switch that may render the scheduling algorithms inefficient in...

In this dissertation, we study distributed resource allocation techniques in full reuse multicell networks. Throughout this work, we consider a system model in which simultaneous transmissions mutually interfere, and thus it is applicable to a number of wireless access schemes. On the basis of this model, we define the specific resource allocation problem addressed in this work: joint power all...