Combining relaying and base station coordination for improving cell-edge multi-user performance in 3GPP LTE-Advanced networks

The emphasis of this thesis work is placed on improving cell-edge multi-user performance in 3GPP LTE-Advanced networks by utilizing relaying and base station coordination technologies. Relaying is a technology for enhancing the transmissions between two locations on a radio path and base station coordination is a multi-cell processing technology...

A Responsive Schedule Management System for Large Homecare Organizations

The planning and scheduling process of large homecare organizations (LHO) must be responsive as LHO cannot afford postponement and cancellation of services. However, achieving such responsiveness (respond to schedule change requests without violating timing constraints) is a very complex task for such large organizations, due to their extensive...