In this paper, we study the joint optimal relay location and power allocation problem for single-relay-assisted ultra-wideband (UWB)-based wireless body area networks (WBANs). Specifically, to optimize spectral efficiency (SE) for single-relay cooperative communication in UWB-based WBANs, we seek the relay with the optimal location together with the corresponding optimal power allocation. With ...

The integration of Distributed Energy Resources (DER) in the distribution network has plenty of advantages if their allocation and Penetration Level (PL) are done appropriately. Hence, the challenge of finding the best allocation and PL of DERs in large distribution networks is an important but intricate problem. This paper proposes a novel methodology to simultaneously determine the optimal lo...

This paper studies the optimal power allocation for outage probability minimization in point-topoint fading channels with the energy-harvesting constraints and channel distribution information (CDI) at the transmitter. Both the cases with non-causal and causal energy state information (ESI) are considered, which correspond to the energy-harvesting (EH) rates being known and unknown prior to the...

In this paper, the new hybrid particle swarm optimization (hybrid-PSO) based on particle swarm optimization (PSO), evolutionary programming (EP), and tabu search (TS) is developed. Hybrid-PSO is proposed to determine the optimal allocation of multi-type flexible AC transmission system (FACTS) controllers for simultaneously maximizing the power transfer capability of power transactions between g...

This paper investigates a cross layer scheduling scheme for OFDMA wireless system with heterogeneous delay requirements. Unlike most existing cross layer designs which take a decoupling approach, our design considers both queueing theory and information theory in modeling the system dynamics. The cross layer design is formulated as an optimization of total system throughput, subject to individu...

Resource (power and bandwidth) allocation is an important issue in orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) systems. For multicell systems, the interference across different cells makes the optimization of resource allocation difficult. For finite systems, a constraint on the rise over thermal (ROT) is placed to alleviate the intercell interference. A hybrid scheme with equal recei...

In this paper we developed a sub-optimal algorithm for joint routing and power allocation for an amplify-andforward multi-hop relay network. The objective function for the optimization is the received signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) at the destination. Higher SNR would cause for lower bit error rate consequently. The joint problem of power allocation and relay selection is formulated with respect t...