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Optimal Power Allocation for a Successive Refinable Source with Multiple Descriptions over a Fading Relay Channel Using Broadcast/Multicast Strategies
(University of Waterloo, 2009-09-29)In a wireless fading relay system with multicast/broadcast transmission, one of the most crucial challenges is the optimization of a transmission rate under multiuser channel diversity. Previously reported solutions for ... -
An optimal power management strategy for power split plug-in hybrid electric vehicles
(Inderscience, 2012-10-22)Model Predictive Control (MPC) can be an interesting concept for designing a power management strategy for Hybrid Electric Vehicles (HEVs) according to its capability of online optimisation by receiving current information ... -
Optimal Power-Sharing Control for MTDC Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2020-01-27)Power systems have been developing over the past few decades, especially in terms of increasing efficiency and reliability, as well as in meeting the recent rapid growth in demand. Therefore, High Voltage Direct Current ... -
Optimal Processing Pathway for Sludge-to-Energy Technologies: A Superstructure Optimization-Based MINLP Model
(University of Waterloo, 2022-04-27)The perception of sewage sludge has been increasingly changing from being a waste, that is a burden to the environment and society, to a useful resource of materials and renewable energy. There are several available ... -
Optimal processing route for the utilization and conversion of municipal solid waste into energy and valuable products
(Elsevier, 2018-02-10)A systematic design of municipal solid waste (MSW) management system can lead to identify a promising and/or sustainable way of handling MSW by processing it into energy and valuable products. In this study, a systematic ... -
Optimal randomized ordering policies for a capacitated two-echelon distribution inventory system
(Elsevier, 2018-10-01)We propose a new formulation for controlling inventory in a two-echelon distribution system consisting of one warehouse and multiple non-identical retailers. In such a system, customer demand occurs based on a normal ... -
Optimal Reconfiguration of Complex Production Lines for Profit Maximization via Simulation Modeling
(University of Waterloo, 2014-11-21)With the recent trend of re-shoring, transferring manufacturing systems from a workforce-intensive to a capital-intensive production environment becomes more common. One challenge multinational manufacturing companies may ... -
Optimal Reinsurance Designs: from an Insurer’s Perspective
(University of Waterloo, 2009-09-30)The research on optimal reinsurance design dated back to the 1960’s. For nearly half a century, the quest for optimal reinsurance designs has remained a fascinating subject, drawing significant interests from both academicians ... -
Optimal Reinsurance Retentions under Ruin-Related Optimization Criteria
(University of Waterloo, 2008-12-02)Quota-share and stop-loss/excess-of-loss reinsurances are two important reinsurance strategies. An important question, both in theory and in application, is to determine optimal retentions for these reinsurances. In ... -
Optimal Relay Station Placement in Broadband Wireless Access Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2012-08-31)With the development of IEEE 802.16j multihop relay protocol, the requirement to enhance the network capacity in a wireless network has been met e ectively. In this thesis, we study the capacity enhancement problem for a ... -
Optimal Renewable Energy Integration into the Process Industry and Energy Infrastructure Using the Multi-Energy Hub Approach with Economic and Environmental Considerations
(University of Waterloo, 2019-01-08)Fossil fuels are an integral part of the current energy infrastructure and the major contributor towards carbon emissions. Energy intensive industries and local energy framework, inclusive of the transport sector, can be ... -
Optimal Retirement Planning: Scenario Generation, Preferences, and Objectives
(University of Waterloo, 2018-09-20)The global trend of shifting from defined benefit (DB) to defined contribution (DC) workplace pension plans is putting growing pressure on individuals to take more ownership in retirement planning and financial decision-making. ... -
Optimal Routing in Battery-Powered Vehicles
(University of Waterloo, 2013-01-25)The increased interest in reducing greenhouse gas emissions has motivated renewed interest in electric vehicles technology as an alternative to current fossil-fuel based transportation equipment. Electric vehicles (EVs) ... -
Optimal sampling methods for modelling the occupancy of Arctic grayling (Thymallus arcticus) in the Canadian Barrenlands
(Canadian Science Publishing, 2017)In occupancy models, imperfect detectability of animals is usually corrected for by using temporally-repeated surveys to estimate probability of detection. Substituting spatial replicates for temporal replicates could be ... -
Optimal Scheduling for Asymmetric Multi-core Server Processors
(University of Waterloo, 2014-09-16)The arrival rate of jobs at servers in a data-center can vary significantly over time. The servers in data-centers are typically multi-core processors, which allow jobs to be processed at different degrees of parallelism ... -
Optimal Scheduling for Chemical Processes and its Integration with Design and Control
(University of Waterloo, 2015-02-13)Optimal scheduling is an active area of research as the economics of many chemical processes is affected to a great extent with the optimality of schedules of their operations. Effective use of resources and their capacities ... -
Optimal Sensor Configuration and Fault-Tolerant Estimation of Vehicle States
(SAE International, 2013-04-08)This paper discusses observability of the vehicle states using different sensor configurations as well as fault-tolerant estimation of these states. The optimality of the sensor configurations is assessed through different ... -
Optimal Sensor Location for the Estimation of a Linear Dispersive Wave Equation
(University of Waterloo, 2015-08-07)The problem of optimal sensor location for the estimation of a linear dispersive wave equation is considered in this work. A steady-state Kalman filter was used as an optimal state observer with localized velocity information ... -
Optimal Shipping Decisions in an Airfreight Forwarding Network
(University of Waterloo, 2012-01-23)This thesis explores three consolidation problems derived from the daily operations of major international airfreight forwarders. First, we study the freight forwarder's unsplittable shipment planning problem in an ... -
Optimal Signaling and Labelling For Constellation-Constrained Communication Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2013-01-25)Most communication systems use a finite signal set as their alphabet set to form a codebook to transmit data over a communication channel in a reliable fashion. The problem with Conventional methods which implement Coded ...