Under the common theme of physical-layer aware optimization and design in stochasticwireless networks, this dissertation can be broadly organized into the following two parts:In Part I, based on optimal stopping theory, a framework for channel-aware distributedscheduling is developed for exploiting rich diversities at the physical-layer and mediumaccess control (MAC) layer; ...

the greatest limitations to agricultural development and production in iran are scarcity of water resources, ineffective irrigation scheduling and wasteful water usage. avenues discussed for optimum water use include improving water productivity by improving irrigation scheduling, farm water management and water profitability. the present study evaluated current water use and ways to improve wi...

Shop floor level operations planning significantly affect the production system performance. Traditionally, in a production system, maintenance planning and production scheduling have been considered and optimized independently. However, these two aspects of operations planning do have an interaction effect on each other and hence need to be considered jointly for improving the system performan...

Production scheduling in underground mines is still a manual process, and achieving a truly optimal result through manual scheduling is impossible due to the complexity of the scheduling problems. Among the underground mining methods, sub-level caving is a common mining method with a high production rate for hard rock mining. There are limited studies about long-term production scheduling...

Increasing the capacity of wireless mesh networks has motivated numerous studies. In this context, the cross-layer optimization techniques involving joint use of routing and link scheduling are able to provide better capacity improvements. Most works in the literature propose linear programming models to combine both mechanisms. However, this approach has high computational complexity and canno...

The recent developments in full duplex (FD) communication promise doubling the capacity of cellular networks using self interference cancellation (SIC) techniques. FD small cells with device-to-device (D2D) communication links could achieve the expected capacity of the future cellular networks (5G). In this work, we consider joint scheduling and dynamic power algorithm (DPA) for a single cell F...

We investigate the problem of joint routing and link scheduling in Time-Division Multiple Access (TDMA) Wireless Mesh Networks (WMNs) carrying real-time traffic. We propose a framework that always computes a feasible solution (i.e. a set of paths and link activations) if there exists one, by optimally solving a mixed integer-non linear problem. Such solution can be computed in minutes or tens t...

In this thesis, we study the downlink multiuser scheduling and power allocation problem for systems with simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT). In the first part of the thesis, we focus on multiuser scheduling. We design optimal scheduling algorithms that maximize the long-term average system throughput under different fairness requirements, such as proportional fairness ...

In multi-hop wireless networks, earlier research on joint scheduling and congestion control has suggested that MAClayer scheduling is the bottleneck. Distributed scheduling for maximal throughput is difficult since the conflicting relationship between different links is complex. Existing works on maximalthroughput scheduling usually assumes synchronized time slots, and in each slot, a maximal-w...

In beam-based massive multiple-input multiple-output systems, signals are processed spatially in the radio-frequency (RF) front-end and thereby the number of RF chains can be reduced to save hardware cost, power consumptions and pilot overhead. Most existing work focuses on how to select, or design analog beams to achieve performance close to full digital systems. However, since beams are stron...