Aiming at the problems of large-scale wind and solar grid connection,how to ensure the economy of system operation and how to realize fair scheduling between new energy power stations,a two-stage optimal dispatching m...Aiming at the problems of large-scale wind and solar grid connection,how to ensure the economy of system operation and how to realize fair scheduling between new energy power stations,a two-stage optimal dispatching model of wind power-photovoltaic-solar thermal combined system considering economic optimality and fairness is proposed.Firstly,the first stage dispatching model takes the overall economy optimization of the system as the goal and the principle of maximizing the consumption of wind and solar output,obtains the optimal output value under the economic conditions of each new energy station,and then obtains the maximum consumption space of the new energy station.Secondly,based on the optimization results of the first stage,the second stage dispatching model uses the dispatching method of fuzzy comprehensive ranking priority to prioritize the new energy stations,and then makes a fair allocation to the dispatching of the wind and solar stations.Finally,the analysis of a specific example shows that themodel can take into account the fairness of active power distribution of new energy stations on the basis of ensuring the economy of system operation,make full use of the consumption space,and realize the medium and long-term fairness distribution of dispatching plan.展开更多
Different from conventional cellular networks, a maritime communication base station(BS) has to cover a much wider area due to the limitation of available BS sites. Accordingly the performance of users far away from t...Different from conventional cellular networks, a maritime communication base station(BS) has to cover a much wider area due to the limitation of available BS sites. Accordingly the performance of users far away from the BS is poor in general. This renders the fairness among users a challenging issue for maritime communications. In this paper, we consider a practical massive MIMO maritime BS with hybrid digital and analog precoding. Only the large-scale channel state information at the transmitter(CSIT) is considered so as to reduce the implementation complexity and overhead of the system. On this basis, we address the problem of fairness-oriented precoding design. A max-min optimization problem is formulated and solved in an iterative way. Simulation results demonstrate that the proposed scheme performs much better than conventional hybrid precoding algorithms in terms of minimum achievable rate of all the users, for the typical three-ray maritime channel model.展开更多
In this paper, proportional fairness(PF)-based energy-efficient power allocation is studied for multiple-input multiple-output(MIMO) non-orthogonal multiple access(NOMA) systems. In our schemes, statistical channel st...In this paper, proportional fairness(PF)-based energy-efficient power allocation is studied for multiple-input multiple-output(MIMO) non-orthogonal multiple access(NOMA) systems. In our schemes, statistical channel state information(CSI) is utilized for perfect CSI is impossible to achieve in practice. PF is used to balance the transmission efficiency and user fairness. Energy efficiency(EE) is formulated under basic data rate requirements and maximum transmitting power constraints. Due to the non-convex nature of EE, a two-step algorithm is proposed to obtain sub-optimal solution with a low complexity. Firstly, power allocation is determined by golden section search for fixed power. Secondly total transmitting power is determined by fractional programming method in the feasible regions. Compared to the performance of MIMO-NOMA without PF constraint, fairness is obtained at expense of decreasing of EE.展开更多
This paper investigates the simultaneous wireless information and powertransfer(SWIPT) for network-coded two-way relay network from an information-theoretic perspective, where two sources exchange information via an S...This paper investigates the simultaneous wireless information and powertransfer(SWIPT) for network-coded two-way relay network from an information-theoretic perspective, where two sources exchange information via an SWIPT-aware energy harvesting(EH) relay. We present a power splitting(PS)-based two-way relaying(PS-TWR) protocol by employing the PS receiver architecture. To explore the system sum rate limit with data rate fairness, an optimization problem under total power constraint is formulated. Then, some explicit solutions are derived for the problem. Numerical results show that due to the path loss effect on energy transfer, with the same total available power, PS-TWR losses some system performance compared with traditional non-EH two-way relaying, where at relatively low and relatively high signalto-noise ratio(SNR), the performance loss is relatively small. Another observation is that, in relatively high SNR regime, PS-TWR outperforms time switching-based two-way relaying(TS-TWR) while in relatively low SNR regime TS-TWR outperforms PS-TWR. It is also shown that with individual available power at the two sources, PS-TWR outperforms TS-TWR in both relatively low and high SNR regimes.展开更多
Purpose:This paper proposes a discrimination index method based on the Jain’s fairness index to distinguish researchers with the same H-index.Design/methodology/approach:A validity test is used to measure the correla...Purpose:This paper proposes a discrimination index method based on the Jain’s fairness index to distinguish researchers with the same H-index.Design/methodology/approach:A validity test is used to measure the correlation of D-offset with the parameters,i.e.H-index,the number of cited papers,the total number of citations,the number of indexed papers,and the number of uncited papers.The correlation test is based on the Saphiro-Wilk method and Pearson’s product-moment correlation.Findings:The result from the discrimination index calculation is a two-digit decimal value called the discrimination-offset(D-offset),with a range of D-offset from 0.00 to 0.99.The result of the correlation value between the D-offset and the number of uncited papers is 0.35,D-offset with the number of indexed papers is 0.24,and the number of cited papers is 0.27.The test provides the result that it is very unlikely that there exists no relationship between the parameters.Practical implications:For this reason,D-offset is proposed as an additional parameter for H-index to differentiate researchers with the same H-index.The H-index for researchers can be written with the format of“H-index:D-offset”.Originality/value:D-offset is worthy to be considered as a complement value to add the H-index value.If the D-offset is added in the H-index value,the H-index will have more discrimination power to differentiate the rank of the researchers who have the same H-index.展开更多
The assessment of the fairness of health resource allocation is an important part of the study for the fairness of social development.The data used in most of the existing assessment methods comes from statistical yea...The assessment of the fairness of health resource allocation is an important part of the study for the fairness of social development.The data used in most of the existing assessment methods comes from statistical yearbooks or field survey sampling.These statistics are generally based on administrative areas and are difficult to support a fine-grained evaluation model.In response to these problems,the evaluation method proposed in this paper is based on the query statistics of the geographic grid of the target area,which are more accurate and efficient.Based on the query statistics of hot words in the geographic grids,this paper adopts the maximum likelihood estimation method to estimate the population in the grid region.Then,according to the statistical yearbook data of Hunan province,the estimated number and actual number of hospitals in each grid are analyzed and compared to measure the fairness of health resource allocation in the target region.Experiments show that the geographical grid population assessment based on hot words is more accurate and close to the actual value.The estimated average error is only about 17.8 percent.This method can assess the fairness of health resource allocation in any scale,and is innovative in data acquisition and evaluation methods.展开更多
In this paper, we propose a flexible and fairness-oriented packet scheduling approach for 3GPP UTRAN long term evolution (LTE) type packet radio systems, building on the ordinary proportional fair (PF) scheduling prin...In this paper, we propose a flexible and fairness-oriented packet scheduling approach for 3GPP UTRAN long term evolution (LTE) type packet radio systems, building on the ordinary proportional fair (PF) scheduling principle and channel quality indicator (CQI) feedback. Special emphasis is also put on practical feedback reporting mechanisms, including the effects of mobile measurement and estimation errors, reporting delays, and CQI quantization and compression. The performance of the overall scheduling and feedback re-porting process is investigated in details, in terms of cell throughput, coverage and resource allocation fairness, by using extensive quasistatic cellular system simulations in practical OFDMA system environment with frequency reuse of 1. The performance simulations show that by using the proposed modified PF ap-proach, significant coverage improvements in the order of 50% can be obtained at the expense of only 10-15% throughput loss, for all reduced feedback reporting schemes. This reflects highly improved fairness in the radio resource management (RRM) compared to other existing schedulers, without essentially com-promising the cell capacity. Furthermore, we demonstrate the improved functionality increase in radio re-source management for UE’s utilizing multi-antenna diversity receivers.展开更多
This paper investigates the resource scheduling for heterogeneous vehicular networks, where some moving vehicles are selected and scheduled as helping relays to assist information transmission between the roadside inf...This paper investigates the resource scheduling for heterogeneous vehicular networks, where some moving vehicles are selected and scheduled as helping relays to assist information transmission between the roadside infrastructure and other moving vehicles. For such a system, we propose a mobile-service based max-min fairness resource scheduling scheme, where service amount which is more suitable for high mobility scenarios is adopted to characterize the information transmission capacity of the links and the max-min criteria is adopted to meet the fairness requirement of the moving vehicles. Simulation results demonstrate the effectiveness of our proposed scheme. It is shown that our proposed scheme archives higher throughput and better fairness compared with random scheduling scheme and non-relaying scheme.展开更多
The spectral efficiency(SE)and energy efficiency(EE)tradeoff while ensuring rate fairness among users in non-orthogonal multiple access(NOMA)systems is investigated.In order to characterize the SE-EE tradeoff with rat...The spectral efficiency(SE)and energy efficiency(EE)tradeoff while ensuring rate fairness among users in non-orthogonal multiple access(NOMA)systems is investigated.In order to characterize the SE-EE tradeoff with rate fairness,a multi-objective optimization(MOO)problem is first formulated,where the rate fairness is represented with theα-fair utility function.Then,the MOO problem is converted into a single-objective optimization(SOO)problem by the weighted sum method.To solve the converted non-convex SOO problem,we apply sequential convex programming,which helps to propose a general power allocation algorithm to realize the SE-EE tradeoff with rate fairness.We prove the convergence of the proposed algorithm and the convergent solution satisfies the KKT conditions.Simulation results demonstrate the proposed power allocation algorithm can achieve various levels of rate fairness,and higher fairness results in degraded performance of SE-EE tradeoff.A pivotal conclusion is reached that NOMA systems significantly outperform orthogonal multiple access systems in terms of SE-EE tradeoff with the same level of rate fairness.展开更多
To mitigate interference on celledge users and improve fairness of the whole system, dynamic inter-cell interference coordination(ICIC) is one of the promising solutions. However, traditional dynamic ICIC is considere...To mitigate interference on celledge users and improve fairness of the whole system, dynamic inter-cell interference coordination(ICIC) is one of the promising solutions. However, traditional dynamic ICIC is considered as an NP-hard problem and power variability further adds another dimension to this joint optimization issue, making it even more difficult to quickly reach a near-optimal solution. Therefore, we theoretically obtain the closed-form expression of the near-optimal power allocation ratio for users in adjacent cells paired in the same resource block and interfere each other, so that the total utility corresponding to α-fairness is maximized. Dynamic ICIC using this closed-form solution could improve user fairness without causing an increment of the computational complexity. Numerical results show that, compared with the schemes using identical power for different users, our method does not obviously degrade the system's average spectral efficiency.展开更多
Non-orthogonal multiple access(NOMA)is one of the leading technologies for 5G communication.User pairing(UP)and power allocation(PA)are the key controlling mechanisms for the optimization of the performance of NOMA sy...Non-orthogonal multiple access(NOMA)is one of the leading technologies for 5G communication.User pairing(UP)and power allocation(PA)are the key controlling mechanisms for the optimization of the performance of NOMA systems.This paper presents a novel UP and PA(UPPA)technique for capacity and fairness maximization in NOMA called(CFM-UPPA).The impact of the power allocation coefficient and the ratio between the channel gains of the paired users on the sum-rate capacity and the fairness in NOMA is firstly investigated.Then,based on this investigation,the PA and UP algorithms of the CFM-UPPA technique are proposed.The power allocation coefficient of the proposed PA is formulated as an exponentially decaying function of the ratio between the channel gains of the paired users to maximize the capacity and the fairness,and its maximum value is adjusted to guarantee the successive interference cancellation(SIC)constraints.The proposed UP is based on selecting the user that has the highest channel gain per subcarrier as the strong user to maximize the capacity and selecting the user that has the closest lower channel gain to the strong user’s channel gain as the weak user to improve the fairness and capacity.The performance evaluation of the proposed CFM-UPPA technique in terms of capacity,fairness,and outage probability demonstrates that its performance significantly outperforms that of the orthogonal multiple access(OMA)system and that of the NOMA system with random UP.Also,the simulation results demonstrate the efficiency of the proposed PA in improving the performance of other UP algorithms,such as the random UP algorithm.展开更多
Non-orthogonal multiple access(NOMA)is one of the key 5G technology which can improve spectrum efficiency and increase the number of user connections by utilizing the resources in a non-orthogonal manner.NOMA allows m...Non-orthogonal multiple access(NOMA)is one of the key 5G technology which can improve spectrum efficiency and increase the number of user connections by utilizing the resources in a non-orthogonal manner.NOMA allows multiple terminals to share the same resource unit at the same time.The receiver usually needs to configure successive interference cancellation(SIC).The receiver eliminates co-channel interference(CCI)between users and it can significantly improve the system throughput.In order to meet the demands of users and improve fairness among them,this paper proposes a new power allocation scheme.The objective is to maximize user fairness by deploying the least fairness in multiplexed users.However,the objective function obtained is non-convex which is converted into convex form by utilizing the optimal Karush-Kuhn-Tucker(KKT)constraints.Simulation results show that the proposed power allocation scheme gives better performance than the existing schemes which indicates the effectiveness of the proposed scheme.展开更多
The combination of orthogonal frequency division multiple access(OFDMA) with relaying techniques provides plentiful opportunities for high-performance and cost-effective networks.It requires intelligent radio resource...The combination of orthogonal frequency division multiple access(OFDMA) with relaying techniques provides plentiful opportunities for high-performance and cost-effective networks.It requires intelligent radio resource management schemes to harness these opportunities.This paper investigates the utility-based resource allocation problem in a real-time and non-real-time traffics mixed OFDMA cellular relay network to exploit the potentiality of relay.In order to apply utility theory to obtain an efficient tradeoff between throughput and fairness as well as satisfy the delay requirements of real-time traffics,a joint routing and scheduling scheme is proposed to resolve the resource allocation problem.Additionally,a low-complexity iterative algorithm is introduced to realize the scheme.The numerical results indicate that besides meeting the delay requirements of real-time traffic,the scheme can achieve the tradeoff between throughput and fairness effectively.展开更多
The promotion of both market fairness and efficiency has long been a goal of securities market regulators worldwide.Accelerated digital disruption and abusive trading behaviors,such as the GameStop mania,prompt regula...The promotion of both market fairness and efficiency has long been a goal of securities market regulators worldwide.Accelerated digital disruption and abusive trading behaviors,such as the GameStop mania,prompt regulatory changes.It is unclear how this“democratization”of trading power affects market fairness as economies cope with pandemic-driven shifts in basic systems.Excessive speculation and market manipulation undermine the quality of financial markets in the sense that they cause volatil-ity and increase the pain of bubble and crash events.Thereby,they weaken public confidence in financial markets to fulfill their roles in proper capital allocation to irrigate the real economy and generate value for society.While previous studies have mostly focused on market efficiency,our study proposes a tool to improve market fairness,even under periods of stress.To encourage value generation and improve market quality,we advance a graduated Non-Value-Added Tax that we implement in an agent-based model that can realistically capture the properties of real-world financial markets.A profitable transaction is taxed at a higher rate if it does not enhance the efficiency measured by deviation from fundamentals.When an agent locks in profit not supported by fundamentals but driven by trend-following strategies,the generated profit is taxed at various rates under the Non-Value-Added Tax regime.Unlike existing financial transaction taxes,the non-value-added tax is levied on profit rather than on price or volume.We show that the proposed tax encourages profitable trades that add value to the market and discourages valueless profit-making.It significantly curtails volatility and prevents the occurrence of extreme market events,such as bubbles and crashes.展开更多
Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) is an independent device that comprises a discrete collection of Sensor Nodes (SN) to sense environmental positions,device monitoring, and collection of information. Due to limited energ...Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) is an independent device that comprises a discrete collection of Sensor Nodes (SN) to sense environmental positions,device monitoring, and collection of information. Due to limited energy resourcesavailable at SN, the primary issue is to present an energy-efficient framework andconserve the energy while constructing a route path along with each sensor node.However, many energy-efficient techniques focused drastically on energy harvesting and reduced energy consumption but failed to support energy-efficient routingwith minimal energy consumption in WSN. This paper presents an energy-efficientrouting system called Energy-aware Proportional Fairness Multi-user Routing(EPFMR) framework in WSN. EPFMR is deployed in the WSN environment usingthe instance time. The request time sent for the route discovery is the foremost stepdesigned in the EPFMR framework to reduce the energy consumption rate. Theproportional fairness routing in WSN selects the best route path for the packet flowbased on the relationship between the periods of requests between different SN.Route path discovered for packet flow also measure energy on multi-user route pathusing the Greedy Instance Fair Method (GIFM). The GIFM in EPFMR developsnode dependent energy-efficient localized route path, improving the throughput.The energy-aware framework maximizes the throughput rate and performs experimental evaluation on factors such as energy consumption rate during routing,Throughput, RST, node density and average energy per packet in WSN. The RouteSearching Time (RST) is reduced using the Boltzmann Distribution (BD), and as aresult, the energy is minimized on multi-user WSN. Finally, GIFM applies aninstance time difference-based route searching on WSN to attain an optimal energyminimization system. Experimental analysis shows that the EPFMR framework canreduce the RST by 23.47% and improve the throughput by 6.79% compared withthe state-of-the-art works.展开更多
All ABR congestion control algorithms reported are designed to achieve max-min fairness. In this paper, a new algorithm named dynamic bandwidth allocation algorithm is presented. Under the same framework, the algorith...All ABR congestion control algorithms reported are designed to achieve max-min fairness. In this paper, a new algorithm named dynamic bandwidth allocation algorithm is presented. Under the same framework, the algorithm can achieve fairness under several given criteria. Simulation result shows that the new algorithm works well under various network configurations, various traffic classes, and scale well to LANs or WANs.展开更多
Based on the GIS spatial analysis technology,this paper assessed the effects of Nanchang metro in improving the accessibility of public transport networks in different spatial patterns.Besides,from the perspective of ...Based on the GIS spatial analysis technology,this paper assessed the effects of Nanchang metro in improving the accessibility of public transport networks in different spatial patterns.Besides,from the perspective of transport fairness,this paper evaluated the fairness of allocation of transportation resources for indemnificatory housing residents.Then,it revealed the reasons for the welfare loss of indemnificatory housing residents in fast rail transit resources,so as to provide a reference for promoting the space adaptation of indemnificatory housing residents.The study found that(i)the subway has improved the accessibility of the urban public transport network in terms of travel time and accessibility,but it has a different effect on improving the accessibility of the public transport network.After crossing a certain transit time and distance,there is a weakening trend,showing a pattern of"central expansion-peripheral weakness".(ii)The relative improvement of the metro on the accessibility of public transport for indemnificatory housing residents is lower than the overall improvement efficiency,and the fairness of the redistribution of transportation resources of the indemnificatory housing residents is impaired.(iii)In order to prevent and reduce the problem of space mismatch between indemnificatory housing and rail transit,it can be achieved by planning the metro network according to the spatial characteristics of indemnificatory housing residents’activities,guiding the selection of sites for indemnificatory housing with the TOD model,and forming a mixed community by combining the indemnificatory housing construction with commercial housing,to guarantee fair resource allocation of indemnificatory housing residents.展开更多
In this paper, we carry out QoE (Quality of Experience) assessment of fairness between players in a networked balloon bursting game with olfactory and haptic senses. We also make a comparison of the fairness among dif...In this paper, we carry out QoE (Quality of Experience) assessment of fairness between players in a networked balloon bursting game with olfactory and haptic senses. We also make a comparison of the fairness among different types of networked games with olfactory and haptic senses in the assessment. Then, we clarify the differences owing to usage of olfactory and haptic senses among the games. As a result, we illustrate that the fairness is largely affected by the delay difference, and we also demonstrate that the allowable range depends on the type of games, type of senses which are employed in the games, and the play methods.展开更多
In this paper, we carry out QoE (Quality of Experience) assessment to investigate influences of olfactory and auditory senses on fairness for a networked virtual 3D object identification game with haptics. In the game...In this paper, we carry out QoE (Quality of Experience) assessment to investigate influences of olfactory and auditory senses on fairness for a networked virtual 3D object identification game with haptics. In the game, two players try to identify objects which are placed in a shared 3D virtual space. In the assessment, we carry out the game in four cases. Smells and sounds are presented in the first case, only sounds are done in the second case, and only smells are done in the third case. In the last case, we present neither smell nor sound. As a result, we demonstrate that the fairness deteriorates more largely as the difference in conditions between two users becomes larger.展开更多
With the Rio Olympics just a few months past,we remember the excitement,the incredible performances,and the controversies.As happens so often,the Olympic Games focus attention not only on athletic achievements but als...With the Rio Olympics just a few months past,we remember the excitement,the incredible performances,and the controversies.As happens so often,the Olympic Games focus attention not only on athletic achievements but also on how athletes may reach ever-increasing levels of performance.Doping,medical展开更多
基金a phased achievement of Gansu Province’s Major Science and Technology Project(19ZD2GA003)“Key Technologies and Demonstrative Applications of Market Consumption and Dispatching Control of Photothermal-Photovoltaic-Wind PowerNew Energy Base(Multi Energy System Optimization)”.
文摘Aiming at the problems of large-scale wind and solar grid connection,how to ensure the economy of system operation and how to realize fair scheduling between new energy power stations,a two-stage optimal dispatching model of wind power-photovoltaic-solar thermal combined system considering economic optimality and fairness is proposed.Firstly,the first stage dispatching model takes the overall economy optimization of the system as the goal and the principle of maximizing the consumption of wind and solar output,obtains the optimal output value under the economic conditions of each new energy station,and then obtains the maximum consumption space of the new energy station.Secondly,based on the optimization results of the first stage,the second stage dispatching model uses the dispatching method of fuzzy comprehensive ranking priority to prioritize the new energy stations,and then makes a fair allocation to the dispatching of the wind and solar stations.Finally,the analysis of a specific example shows that themodel can take into account the fairness of active power distribution of new energy stations on the basis of ensuring the economy of system operation,make full use of the consumption space,and realize the medium and long-term fairness distribution of dispatching plan.
基金supported in part by the National Science Foundation of China under grant No. 91638205,grant No. 61771286, and grant No. 61701457, and grant No. 61621091
文摘Different from conventional cellular networks, a maritime communication base station(BS) has to cover a much wider area due to the limitation of available BS sites. Accordingly the performance of users far away from the BS is poor in general. This renders the fairness among users a challenging issue for maritime communications. In this paper, we consider a practical massive MIMO maritime BS with hybrid digital and analog precoding. Only the large-scale channel state information at the transmitter(CSIT) is considered so as to reduce the implementation complexity and overhead of the system. On this basis, we address the problem of fairness-oriented precoding design. A max-min optimization problem is formulated and solved in an iterative way. Simulation results demonstrate that the proposed scheme performs much better than conventional hybrid precoding algorithms in terms of minimum achievable rate of all the users, for the typical three-ray maritime channel model.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 61671252)
文摘In this paper, proportional fairness(PF)-based energy-efficient power allocation is studied for multiple-input multiple-output(MIMO) non-orthogonal multiple access(NOMA) systems. In our schemes, statistical channel state information(CSI) is utilized for perfect CSI is impossible to achieve in practice. PF is used to balance the transmission efficiency and user fairness. Energy efficiency(EE) is formulated under basic data rate requirements and maximum transmitting power constraints. Due to the non-convex nature of EE, a two-step algorithm is proposed to obtain sub-optimal solution with a low complexity. Firstly, power allocation is determined by golden section search for fixed power. Secondly total transmitting power is determined by fractional programming method in the feasible regions. Compared to the performance of MIMO-NOMA without PF constraint, fairness is obtained at expense of decreasing of EE.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China ( No . 61602034 )the Beijing Natural Science Foundation (No. 4162049)+2 种基金the Open Research Fund of National Mobile Communications Research Laboratory,Southeast University (No. 2014D03)the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities Beijing Jiaotong University (No. 2016JBM015)the NationalHigh Technology Research and Development Program of China (863 Program) (No. 2015AA015702)
文摘This paper investigates the simultaneous wireless information and powertransfer(SWIPT) for network-coded two-way relay network from an information-theoretic perspective, where two sources exchange information via an SWIPT-aware energy harvesting(EH) relay. We present a power splitting(PS)-based two-way relaying(PS-TWR) protocol by employing the PS receiver architecture. To explore the system sum rate limit with data rate fairness, an optimization problem under total power constraint is formulated. Then, some explicit solutions are derived for the problem. Numerical results show that due to the path loss effect on energy transfer, with the same total available power, PS-TWR losses some system performance compared with traditional non-EH two-way relaying, where at relatively low and relatively high signalto-noise ratio(SNR), the performance loss is relatively small. Another observation is that, in relatively high SNR regime, PS-TWR outperforms time switching-based two-way relaying(TS-TWR) while in relatively low SNR regime TS-TWR outperforms PS-TWR. It is also shown that with individual available power at the two sources, PS-TWR outperforms TS-TWR in both relatively low and high SNR regimes.
基金This research was financially supported by the Ministry of Research and Technology,Republic of Indonesia through Fundamental Research Grant No.225-98/UN7.6.1/PP/2020.
文摘Purpose:This paper proposes a discrimination index method based on the Jain’s fairness index to distinguish researchers with the same H-index.Design/methodology/approach:A validity test is used to measure the correlation of D-offset with the parameters,i.e.H-index,the number of cited papers,the total number of citations,the number of indexed papers,and the number of uncited papers.The correlation test is based on the Saphiro-Wilk method and Pearson’s product-moment correlation.Findings:The result from the discrimination index calculation is a two-digit decimal value called the discrimination-offset(D-offset),with a range of D-offset from 0.00 to 0.99.The result of the correlation value between the D-offset and the number of uncited papers is 0.35,D-offset with the number of indexed papers is 0.24,and the number of cited papers is 0.27.The test provides the result that it is very unlikely that there exists no relationship between the parameters.Practical implications:For this reason,D-offset is proposed as an additional parameter for H-index to differentiate researchers with the same H-index.The H-index for researchers can be written with the format of“H-index:D-offset”.Originality/value:D-offset is worthy to be considered as a complement value to add the H-index value.If the D-offset is added in the H-index value,the H-index will have more discrimination power to differentiate the rank of the researchers who have the same H-index.
文摘The assessment of the fairness of health resource allocation is an important part of the study for the fairness of social development.The data used in most of the existing assessment methods comes from statistical yearbooks or field survey sampling.These statistics are generally based on administrative areas and are difficult to support a fine-grained evaluation model.In response to these problems,the evaluation method proposed in this paper is based on the query statistics of the geographic grid of the target area,which are more accurate and efficient.Based on the query statistics of hot words in the geographic grids,this paper adopts the maximum likelihood estimation method to estimate the population in the grid region.Then,according to the statistical yearbook data of Hunan province,the estimated number and actual number of hospitals in each grid are analyzed and compared to measure the fairness of health resource allocation in the target region.Experiments show that the geographical grid population assessment based on hot words is more accurate and close to the actual value.The estimated average error is only about 17.8 percent.This method can assess the fairness of health resource allocation in any scale,and is innovative in data acquisition and evaluation methods.
文摘In this paper, we propose a flexible and fairness-oriented packet scheduling approach for 3GPP UTRAN long term evolution (LTE) type packet radio systems, building on the ordinary proportional fair (PF) scheduling principle and channel quality indicator (CQI) feedback. Special emphasis is also put on practical feedback reporting mechanisms, including the effects of mobile measurement and estimation errors, reporting delays, and CQI quantization and compression. The performance of the overall scheduling and feedback re-porting process is investigated in details, in terms of cell throughput, coverage and resource allocation fairness, by using extensive quasistatic cellular system simulations in practical OFDMA system environment with frequency reuse of 1. The performance simulations show that by using the proposed modified PF ap-proach, significant coverage improvements in the order of 50% can be obtained at the expense of only 10-15% throughput loss, for all reduced feedback reporting schemes. This reflects highly improved fairness in the radio resource management (RRM) compared to other existing schedulers, without essentially com-promising the cell capacity. Furthermore, we demonstrate the improved functionality increase in radio re-source management for UE’s utilizing multi-antenna diversity receivers.
基金supported by the Chinese Postdoctoral Science Foundation No. 2015M570937the Open Research Fund of National Mobile Communications Research Laboratory,Southeast University No. 2014D03+2 种基金the National High-Tech R&D Program(863 Program) No.2015AA010301the National Natural Science Foundation of Chinaunder Grant No.61572072the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities "Research on the System of Personalized Education using Big Data"
文摘This paper investigates the resource scheduling for heterogeneous vehicular networks, where some moving vehicles are selected and scheduled as helping relays to assist information transmission between the roadside infrastructure and other moving vehicles. For such a system, we propose a mobile-service based max-min fairness resource scheduling scheme, where service amount which is more suitable for high mobility scenarios is adopted to characterize the information transmission capacity of the links and the max-min criteria is adopted to meet the fairness requirement of the moving vehicles. Simulation results demonstrate the effectiveness of our proposed scheme. It is shown that our proposed scheme archives higher throughput and better fairness compared with random scheduling scheme and non-relaying scheme.
基金Supported by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(2016RC055)
文摘The spectral efficiency(SE)and energy efficiency(EE)tradeoff while ensuring rate fairness among users in non-orthogonal multiple access(NOMA)systems is investigated.In order to characterize the SE-EE tradeoff with rate fairness,a multi-objective optimization(MOO)problem is first formulated,where the rate fairness is represented with theα-fair utility function.Then,the MOO problem is converted into a single-objective optimization(SOO)problem by the weighted sum method.To solve the converted non-convex SOO problem,we apply sequential convex programming,which helps to propose a general power allocation algorithm to realize the SE-EE tradeoff with rate fairness.We prove the convergence of the proposed algorithm and the convergent solution satisfies the KKT conditions.Simulation results demonstrate the proposed power allocation algorithm can achieve various levels of rate fairness,and higher fairness results in degraded performance of SE-EE tradeoff.A pivotal conclusion is reached that NOMA systems significantly outperform orthogonal multiple access systems in terms of SE-EE tradeoff with the same level of rate fairness.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No. 61501160supported by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities of China under Grant No. 2015HGCH0013
文摘To mitigate interference on celledge users and improve fairness of the whole system, dynamic inter-cell interference coordination(ICIC) is one of the promising solutions. However, traditional dynamic ICIC is considered as an NP-hard problem and power variability further adds another dimension to this joint optimization issue, making it even more difficult to quickly reach a near-optimal solution. Therefore, we theoretically obtain the closed-form expression of the near-optimal power allocation ratio for users in adjacent cells paired in the same resource block and interfere each other, so that the total utility corresponding to α-fairness is maximized. Dynamic ICIC using this closed-form solution could improve user fairness without causing an increment of the computational complexity. Numerical results show that, compared with the schemes using identical power for different users, our method does not obviously degrade the system's average spectral efficiency.
基金This research was supported by Taif University Researchers Supporting Project Number(TURSP-2020/147),Taif University,Taif,Saudi Arabia.
文摘Non-orthogonal multiple access(NOMA)is one of the leading technologies for 5G communication.User pairing(UP)and power allocation(PA)are the key controlling mechanisms for the optimization of the performance of NOMA systems.This paper presents a novel UP and PA(UPPA)technique for capacity and fairness maximization in NOMA called(CFM-UPPA).The impact of the power allocation coefficient and the ratio between the channel gains of the paired users on the sum-rate capacity and the fairness in NOMA is firstly investigated.Then,based on this investigation,the PA and UP algorithms of the CFM-UPPA technique are proposed.The power allocation coefficient of the proposed PA is formulated as an exponentially decaying function of the ratio between the channel gains of the paired users to maximize the capacity and the fairness,and its maximum value is adjusted to guarantee the successive interference cancellation(SIC)constraints.The proposed UP is based on selecting the user that has the highest channel gain per subcarrier as the strong user to maximize the capacity and selecting the user that has the closest lower channel gain to the strong user’s channel gain as the weak user to improve the fairness and capacity.The performance evaluation of the proposed CFM-UPPA technique in terms of capacity,fairness,and outage probability demonstrates that its performance significantly outperforms that of the orthogonal multiple access(OMA)system and that of the NOMA system with random UP.Also,the simulation results demonstrate the efficiency of the proposed PA in improving the performance of other UP algorithms,such as the random UP algorithm.
文摘Non-orthogonal multiple access(NOMA)is one of the key 5G technology which can improve spectrum efficiency and increase the number of user connections by utilizing the resources in a non-orthogonal manner.NOMA allows multiple terminals to share the same resource unit at the same time.The receiver usually needs to configure successive interference cancellation(SIC).The receiver eliminates co-channel interference(CCI)between users and it can significantly improve the system throughput.In order to meet the demands of users and improve fairness among them,this paper proposes a new power allocation scheme.The objective is to maximize user fairness by deploying the least fairness in multiplexed users.However,the objective function obtained is non-convex which is converted into convex form by utilizing the optimal Karush-Kuhn-Tucker(KKT)constraints.Simulation results show that the proposed power allocation scheme gives better performance than the existing schemes which indicates the effectiveness of the proposed scheme.
基金Sponsored by the Self-Determined Research Funds of Huazhong Normal University from the Colleges’Basic Research and Operation of MOE
文摘The combination of orthogonal frequency division multiple access(OFDMA) with relaying techniques provides plentiful opportunities for high-performance and cost-effective networks.It requires intelligent radio resource management schemes to harness these opportunities.This paper investigates the utility-based resource allocation problem in a real-time and non-real-time traffics mixed OFDMA cellular relay network to exploit the potentiality of relay.In order to apply utility theory to obtain an efficient tradeoff between throughput and fairness as well as satisfy the delay requirements of real-time traffics,a joint routing and scheduling scheme is proposed to resolve the resource allocation problem.Additionally,a low-complexity iterative algorithm is introduced to realize the scheme.The numerical results indicate that besides meeting the delay requirements of real-time traffic,the scheme can achieve the tradeoff between throughput and fairness effectively.
文摘The promotion of both market fairness and efficiency has long been a goal of securities market regulators worldwide.Accelerated digital disruption and abusive trading behaviors,such as the GameStop mania,prompt regulatory changes.It is unclear how this“democratization”of trading power affects market fairness as economies cope with pandemic-driven shifts in basic systems.Excessive speculation and market manipulation undermine the quality of financial markets in the sense that they cause volatil-ity and increase the pain of bubble and crash events.Thereby,they weaken public confidence in financial markets to fulfill their roles in proper capital allocation to irrigate the real economy and generate value for society.While previous studies have mostly focused on market efficiency,our study proposes a tool to improve market fairness,even under periods of stress.To encourage value generation and improve market quality,we advance a graduated Non-Value-Added Tax that we implement in an agent-based model that can realistically capture the properties of real-world financial markets.A profitable transaction is taxed at a higher rate if it does not enhance the efficiency measured by deviation from fundamentals.When an agent locks in profit not supported by fundamentals but driven by trend-following strategies,the generated profit is taxed at various rates under the Non-Value-Added Tax regime.Unlike existing financial transaction taxes,the non-value-added tax is levied on profit rather than on price or volume.We show that the proposed tax encourages profitable trades that add value to the market and discourages valueless profit-making.It significantly curtails volatility and prevents the occurrence of extreme market events,such as bubbles and crashes.
文摘Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) is an independent device that comprises a discrete collection of Sensor Nodes (SN) to sense environmental positions,device monitoring, and collection of information. Due to limited energy resourcesavailable at SN, the primary issue is to present an energy-efficient framework andconserve the energy while constructing a route path along with each sensor node.However, many energy-efficient techniques focused drastically on energy harvesting and reduced energy consumption but failed to support energy-efficient routingwith minimal energy consumption in WSN. This paper presents an energy-efficientrouting system called Energy-aware Proportional Fairness Multi-user Routing(EPFMR) framework in WSN. EPFMR is deployed in the WSN environment usingthe instance time. The request time sent for the route discovery is the foremost stepdesigned in the EPFMR framework to reduce the energy consumption rate. Theproportional fairness routing in WSN selects the best route path for the packet flowbased on the relationship between the periods of requests between different SN.Route path discovered for packet flow also measure energy on multi-user route pathusing the Greedy Instance Fair Method (GIFM). The GIFM in EPFMR developsnode dependent energy-efficient localized route path, improving the throughput.The energy-aware framework maximizes the throughput rate and performs experimental evaluation on factors such as energy consumption rate during routing,Throughput, RST, node density and average energy per packet in WSN. The RouteSearching Time (RST) is reduced using the Boltzmann Distribution (BD), and as aresult, the energy is minimized on multi-user WSN. Finally, GIFM applies aninstance time difference-based route searching on WSN to attain an optimal energyminimization system. Experimental analysis shows that the EPFMR framework canreduce the RST by 23.47% and improve the throughput by 6.79% compared withthe state-of-the-art works.
文摘All ABR congestion control algorithms reported are designed to achieve max-min fairness. In this paper, a new algorithm named dynamic bandwidth allocation algorithm is presented. Under the same framework, the algorithm can achieve fairness under several given criteria. Simulation result shows that the new algorithm works well under various network configurations, various traffic classes, and scale well to LANs or WANs.
文摘Based on the GIS spatial analysis technology,this paper assessed the effects of Nanchang metro in improving the accessibility of public transport networks in different spatial patterns.Besides,from the perspective of transport fairness,this paper evaluated the fairness of allocation of transportation resources for indemnificatory housing residents.Then,it revealed the reasons for the welfare loss of indemnificatory housing residents in fast rail transit resources,so as to provide a reference for promoting the space adaptation of indemnificatory housing residents.The study found that(i)the subway has improved the accessibility of the urban public transport network in terms of travel time and accessibility,but it has a different effect on improving the accessibility of the public transport network.After crossing a certain transit time and distance,there is a weakening trend,showing a pattern of"central expansion-peripheral weakness".(ii)The relative improvement of the metro on the accessibility of public transport for indemnificatory housing residents is lower than the overall improvement efficiency,and the fairness of the redistribution of transportation resources of the indemnificatory housing residents is impaired.(iii)In order to prevent and reduce the problem of space mismatch between indemnificatory housing and rail transit,it can be achieved by planning the metro network according to the spatial characteristics of indemnificatory housing residents’activities,guiding the selection of sites for indemnificatory housing with the TOD model,and forming a mixed community by combining the indemnificatory housing construction with commercial housing,to guarantee fair resource allocation of indemnificatory housing residents.
文摘In this paper, we carry out QoE (Quality of Experience) assessment of fairness between players in a networked balloon bursting game with olfactory and haptic senses. We also make a comparison of the fairness among different types of networked games with olfactory and haptic senses in the assessment. Then, we clarify the differences owing to usage of olfactory and haptic senses among the games. As a result, we illustrate that the fairness is largely affected by the delay difference, and we also demonstrate that the allowable range depends on the type of games, type of senses which are employed in the games, and the play methods.
文摘In this paper, we carry out QoE (Quality of Experience) assessment to investigate influences of olfactory and auditory senses on fairness for a networked virtual 3D object identification game with haptics. In the game, two players try to identify objects which are placed in a shared 3D virtual space. In the assessment, we carry out the game in four cases. Smells and sounds are presented in the first case, only sounds are done in the second case, and only smells are done in the third case. In the last case, we present neither smell nor sound. As a result, we demonstrate that the fairness deteriorates more largely as the difference in conditions between two users becomes larger.
文摘With the Rio Olympics just a few months past,we remember the excitement,the incredible performances,and the controversies.As happens so often,the Olympic Games focus attention not only on athletic achievements but also on how athletes may reach ever-increasing levels of performance.Doping,medical
