Water is an essential yet constrained commodity for human communities and ecological systems depend on it. With population growth and economic development, water resource is increasingly declining. Over the past two decades, because of changes in population and climate, and relative welfare increase, the per capita consumption of water has increased. Thus, optimal use of available water resourc...

The efficient management of the radio resource of a 3-G system is important from an operator’s perspective. This, however, cannot be the only concern when quality of service (QoS) negotiations have been made for various users and the operator has to uphold these. This leads to a fairness objective that the operator has to keep in mind. In this paper we outline a scheme to perform packet-level s...