The HC has available, over time, a snapshot view of the per-TC, per station, queue length information in the cell, including that of the AP itself.
Implementing TCA with a minimum number of block per TC is one, three TCs and an ultimate pit were generated.
The number of TCs generated can be controlled by setting the minimum number of blocks per TC.
To demonstrate the ability of TCA in controlling the number of TCs generated from the aggregation process, the algorithm was also implemented with a minimum size of three blocks per TC, the number of TCs reduced to two and still inside the same ultimate pit, as shown in Fig. 6.
The main features of TCA are: TCs have positive economic value and can be mined in a certain order without violating the slope safety The number of TCs generated can be controlled by setting the minimum number of blocks per TC The combination of all TCs forms an ultimate pit.
At minimum, the following needs to be considered: (a) priority of the TC, (b) required QoS for the TC (low jitter, high bandwidth, low latency, etc)., (c) queue lengths per TC, (d) queue lengths per station, (e) duration of TXOP available and to be allocated, and (f) past QoS seen by the TC.
Running TCA on the given iron ore deposit with the minimum size of 200 blocks per TC, 500 TCs were generated in 10 min using an office-standard computer having an Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 with 3.4 GHz CPU processor and 8 Gb of RAM.
The number of EST's per TC ranged from 2 to 41, with a mean number of 3.24 EST's per TC.
There is an average of 5.2 EST per TC (Rainbow Trout Gene Index database release 7.0) [ 23].
