In this paper, a heterogeneous network composed of femtocells deployed within a macrocell network is considered, and a quality-of-service (QoS -oriented fairness metric which captures important characteristics of tiered network architectures is proposed.
The quality-of-service satisfaction and its fairness for the base station and relay-node-connected users are analyzed in the framework of the utility theory.
In fact, Columbia was wise to separate two important and related but different issues: intimidation (the subject of the faculty report) and the quality and fairness of educational offerings in a contentious field (a topic now being addressed through other, more appropriate machinery at Columbia).
We consider three measures of a schedule that concern the quality and fairness of a tournament.
The article provides a thorough energy-efficiency evaluation demonstrating that e-Mon can significantly improve the battery life of mobile nodes by improving the quality and fairness of load balance between heterogeneous nodes.
All high-stakes assessments should meet an adequate standard in terms of quality and fairness, as measured by a number of parameters, summarised recently in a consensus statement [ 30].
In an effort to improve the quality and fairness of the citizenship test taken every year by hundreds of thousands of immigrants, the government is overhauling the naturalization exam.
Nevertheless, greedy-opportunistic schedulers serving only the users with favorable channel quality conditions raise the issue of fairness, as those users experiencing bad channel quality conditions may suffer from starvation.
"The depth, quality and fairness of our coverage is visible every day to every one of our readers," a Post spokeswoman told The Huffington Post.
Ultimately, however, the quality and fairness of management practices in public sector organizations, and the nature of social relations among communities in workplaces of all types, will depend heavily on developments in a country's wider sociopolitical context.
