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Resource allocation in the public health sector: Current status and future prospects
(University of Waterloo, 2013-10-01)Background: Funding practices in Ontario's acute care sector have undergone a substantive shift away from ‘lump-sum funding’ towards a combination of population-needs and performance-based financing (MOHLTC, 2013). In ... -
Resource Allocation Models in Healthcare Decision Making
(University of Waterloo, 2017-08-31)We present models for allocating limited healthcare resources efficiently among target populations in order to maximize society's welfare and/or minimize the expected costs. In general, this thesis is composed of two major ... -
Resource Allocation Strategies for Multiple Job Classes
(University of Waterloo, 2009-06-18)Resource management for a data center with multiple job classes is investigated in this thesis. We focus on strategies for allocating resources to an application mix such that the service level agreements (SLAs) of individual ... -
Resource Allocation, and Survivability in Network Virtualization Environments
(University of Waterloo, 2010-05-17)Network virtualization can offer more flexibility and better manageability for the future Internet by allowing multiple heterogeneous virtual networks (VN) to coexist on a shared infrastructure provider (InP) network. A ... -
Resource Allocation, User Association, and User Scheduling for OFDMA-based Cellular Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2019-05-01)Current advances in wireless communication are driven by an increased demand for more data and bandwidth, mainly due to the development of new mobile platforms and applications. Ever since then the network operators are ... -
Resource and Interference Management in UAV-Cellular Network
(University of Waterloo, 2022-12-01)The future Sixth-Generation (6G) network is anticipated to extend connectivity for millions of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) worldwide and support various innovative use cases, such as cargo transport, inspection, and ... -
Resource Management and Pricing in Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2012-07-25)Resource management is important for network design and deployment. Resource management and allocation have been studied under a wide variety of scenarios --- routing in wired networks, scheduling in cellular networks, ... -
Resource Management and Tuples in CⱯ
(University of Waterloo, 2017-05-01)CⱯ is a modern, non-object-oriented extension of the C programming language. This thesis addresses several critical deficiencies of C, notably: resource management, a limited function-return mechanism, and unsafe variadic ... -
Resource Management for Delivery of Dynamic Information
(University of Waterloo, 2005)Information delivery via the web has become very popular. Along with a growing user population, systems increasingly are supporting content that changes frequently, personalised information, and differentiation and ... -
Resource Management in Cognitive Radio Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2010-07-20)In the last decade, the world has witnessed rapid increasing applications of wireless networks. However, with the fixed spectrum allocation policy that has been used since the beginning of the spectrum regulation to assign ... -
Resource Management in Delay Tolerant Networks and Smart Grid
(University of Waterloo, 2013-01-25)In recent years, significant advances have been achieved in communication networks and electric power systems. Communication networks are developed to provide services within not only well-connected network environments ... -
Resource Management in E-health Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2015-09-21)E-health systems are the information and communication systems deployed to improve quality and efficiency of public health services. Within E-health systems, wearable sensors are deployed to monitor physiology information ... -
Resource Management in Green Wireless Communication Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2014-12-08)The development of wireless technologies has been stimulated by the ever increasing network capacity and the diversity of users' quality of service (QoS) requirements. It is widely anticipated that next-generation wireless ... -
Resource Management in Next Generation Cellular Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2019-07-03)Fifth generation of cellular networks brings new challenges to the network operators as new applications create new demands. In this thesis, we will study different topics on cellular networks, explain the challenges of ... -
Resource Management in Softwarized Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2021-02-23)Communication networks are undergoing a major transformation through softwarization, which is changing the way networks are designed, operated, and managed. Network Softwarization is an emerging paradigm where software ... -
Resource Management in Virtualized Data Center
(University of Waterloo, 2014-02-21)As businesses are increasingly relying on the cloud to host their services, cloud providers are striving to offer guaranteed and highly-available resources. To achieve this goal, recent proposals have advocated to offer ... -
Resource optimization for fault-tolerant quantum computing
(University of Waterloo, 2014-01-02)Quantum computing offers the potential for efficiently solving otherwise classically difficult problems, with applications in material and drug design, cryptography, theoretical physics, number theory and more. However, ... -
Resource Orchestration in Softwarized Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2018-09-24)Network softwarization is an emerging research area that is envisioned to revolutionize the way network infrastructure is designed, operated, and managed today. Contemporary telecommunication networks are going through a ... -
Resource Provisioning for Web Applications under Time-varying Traffic
(University of Waterloo, 2016-01-14)Cloud computing has gained considerable popularity in recent years. In this paradigm, an organization, referred to as a subscriber, acquires resources from an infrastructure provider to deploy its applications and pays for ... -
Resource Provisioning in the Electrical Grid
(University of Waterloo, 2011-04-21)Transformers and storage systems in the electrical grid must be provisioned or sized just as routers and buffers must be sized in the Internet. We prove the formal equivalence between these two systems and use this insight ...