Optimal Power Allocation in Multi-Relay MIMO Cooperative Networks: Theory and Algorithms Abstract Cooperative networking is known to have significant potential in increasing network capacity and transmission reliability. Although there have been extensive studies on applying cooperative networking in multi-hop ad hoc networks, most works are limited to the basic three-node relay scheme and single-antenna systems. These two limitations are interconnected and both are due to a limited theoretical
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for the first nine months were not as good as expected. Sales volume was up and feedstock costs were down resulting in a gross margin that was better than budget. The fixed costs of the butyl rubber plant were high. The plan had yet reach to the capacity. The European Division had taken less output than projected. Pierre Choquette needs to work on a strategy for the Board presentation. The operations of the company were structured into three groups basic petrochemicals, rubber, and diversified
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1.In the business strategy game one should buy plant upgrades early in the game, because it has an accumulative effect. In the "Plant Capacity" screen you are given four different plant upgrade options per plant. Depending on what your strategy is, one should upgrade their plant in each region with at least two different options. 2. In the "Branded Production" screen you will want to make TQM/sigma six have a value of 2.50 because it helps you achieve a higher SQ rating and set Best Practices
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labor and raw materials -> leads to that VWB struggled sticking to their export-led strategy & maintainaing production minimum * VWB couldn’t increase prices on shipped products, because of stiff competition -> leads to that excess capacity costs wouldn’t be covered by insufficient export margins Internal * Inefficient processes on shop-floor and administration, like
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system. Less investment for professional development of science and technology for the production of flour and production equipment is relatively backward, leading to production at a lower level circulation, belong to one of the industries with excess capacity. Low value-added products, short production cycle, simple technology. Alternative raw material is not strong, the product difference is not large, bigger
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these differences desirable? The theory of constraints scheduling involves the preparation of an exact schedule of jobs for bottleneck work centers, and sequencing the non-bottleneck work centers by a priority-sequencing rule. Any resource whose capacity is equal to or less than the required demand is referred to as a bottleneck. As a consequence the basic principle of TOC systems is that only those work centers that are bottlenecks are of critical concern in scheduling. This is because the bottleneck
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BIO 182 LAB SIGN OFF PAGE — LESSON 13 Name _______________________________ Please staple all of your lab pages for this Lesson together with this page as the top. You will use this page to get your Labs for Lesson 13 signed off by the Biology Learning Center staff. You need to have all of the following steps initialed by a staff member before you can receive your 15 labs points for Lesson 13 and be allowed to take Exam 7. After you have obtained all of your sign offs for this Lesson, be sure that
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were growing at a rate in excess of 40% per year and therefore would be expected to quadruple by 1965. This forecasted sales volume was unable to be produced in the existing facilities as many of them were inefficient and were already operating near capacity and were difficult to expand. Expanding the existing facilities was difficult as it required greater investment in plant and equipment than API’s total existing investment in Europe; locating and training adequate managerial and staff personnel for
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an assessment of the restaurant’s operations, staffing, and facility capacity, it was concluded that main problem is related to understaffing and insufficient facility capacity. Background Sunset’s competitive advantage is its location and pricing, as breakfast options in the vicinity are scarce and high priced. Nonetheless, the franchise is experiencing operational issues due mainly to insufficient staff and seating capacity
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current sales in the industry. So an additional $84,960,000 in the first year is a very reasonable number. The second reason we think his projections are reasonable is because his capacity utilization is reasonable because it start at a modest 60% and never grows by more than 5% in a year. Additionally he never lets the capacity utilization get over 85% which also seems very modest. 3. We took the estimated new debt/value of 20.9% and tried to find where in the table it fit the best. It would fall
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