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  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
4,334 Views
19 Pages

Land resources provide stable support for economic development in China. However, due to the scarcity of land, the contradiction between agricultural land protection and construction land expansion is prominent. Under such circumstances, optimal allo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
496 Views
20 Pages

23 April 2026

Aligned with Sustainable Development Goal 4, the efficient and sustainable allocation of educational resources is essential for improving the quality of higher education. This study investigates the paradox between resource investment and the operati...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,549 Views
16 Pages

5 January 2023

Chinese metropolitan areas suffer from isolated industrial development, obstructed factor flows, and imperfect cooperation mechanisms. Promoting inter-city industrial complementarity and the rational allocation of regional innovation factors is neces...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,849 Views
24 Pages

24 May 2024

The impact of rural-urban student mobility on the efficiency of resource allocation in China’s rural households is crucial for refining policies related to rural migrant settlement and the balanced allocation of urban and rural educational reso...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
5,294 Views
18 Pages

Efficiency and Resource Allocation in Government Hospitals in Saudi Arabi: A Casemix Index Approach

  • Abdulrahman Alshehri,
  • Bander Balkhi,
  • Ghada Gleeson and
  • Ehab Atassi

11 September 2023

In Saudi Arabia, the evaluation of healthcare institutions’ performance and efficiency is gaining prominence to ensure effective resource utilization. This study aims to assess the efficiency of government hospitals in Saudi Arabia using the ca...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,175 Views
18 Pages

This paper proposes a dynamic resource allocation scheme to maximize the energy efficiency (EE) for Massive MIMO Systems. The imperfect channel estimation (CE) and feedback are explicitly considered in the EE maximization problem, which aim to optimi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,721 Views
23 Pages

29 April 2023

Optimizing the allocation of university resources to improve the efficiency of inputs and outputs is an important issue for the high-quality development of universities. In recent years, China has become an important growth pole for the development o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,946 Views
24 Pages

20 November 2024

The carbon trading pilot policy is a key policy to achieve low-carbon development through market mechanism. Studying the impact of carbon trading on resource allocation efficiency can provide an important empirical basis to achieve energy saving and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,276 Views
22 Pages

28 August 2024

This study extends the existing research on carbon trading policies from the perspective of mediating effects. Based on the difference-in-differences method, this study helps to understand the relationship between China’s carbon trading policie...

  • Article
  • Open Access
100 Citations
7,117 Views
13 Pages

AI-Based Resource Allocation Techniques in Wireless Sensor Internet of Things Networks in Energy Efficiency with Data Optimization

  • Quazi Warisha Ahmed,
  • Shruti Garg,
  • Amrita Rai,
  • Manikandan Ramachandran,
  • Noor Zaman Jhanjhi,
  • Mehedi Masud and
  • Mohammed Baz

For the past few years, the IoT (Internet of Things)-based restricted WSN (Wireless sensor network) has sparked a lot of attention and progress in order to attain improved resource utilisation as well as service delivery. For data transfer between he...

  • Article
  • Open Access
741 Views
21 Pages

14 January 2026

Excess commuting reflects the inefficiency of urban land resource allocation, generating additional greenhouse gas emissions and social costs, and has therefore become a central concern in the pursuit of sustainable cities. While exogenous shocks ine...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,387 Views
20 Pages

1 February 2023

Based on the data of A-share listed companies in China, this paper examines how China’s regional carbon emissions trading scheme (ETS) affects the resource allocation efficiency of China’s provincial heavily polluted industries through th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,484 Views
18 Pages

9 May 2024

With the progression of smart vehicles, i.e., connected autonomous vehicles (CAVs), and wireless technologies, there has been an increased need for substantial computational operations for tasks such as path planning, scene recognition, and vision-ba...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,481 Views
32 Pages

22 July 2025

China’s national strategies emphasize both achieving carbon peaking and neutrality (“dual carbon” objectives) and fostering high-quality economic development. This dual focus highlights the critical importance of the Green and Low-C...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,315 Views
31 Pages

8 April 2025

For a country like China, which places equal emphasis on economic development and environmental governance, the exploration of the potential of digital transformation to enhance corporate Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) performance is of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,405 Views
12 Pages

30 October 2019

The fact that the water resource governor has to allocate limited water resources to two competing agricultural water users under the administrative system (AS) leads to a principal-agent issue. Hence, this paper constructs a two-stage performance-ba...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,513 Views
11 Pages

Model of Multi-branch Trees for Efficient Resource Allocation

  • Natsumi Oyamaguchi,
  • Hiroyuki Tajima and
  • Isamu Okada

1 March 2020

Although exploring the principles of resource allocation is still important in many fields, little is known about appropriate methods for optimal resource allocation thus far. This is because we should consider many issues including opposing interest...

  • Article
  • Open Access
38 Citations
4,504 Views
22 Pages

In the face of increasingly growing health demands and the impact of various public health emergencies, it is of great significance to study the regional differences in the allocation efficiency of the rural public health resources and its improvemen...

  • Perspective
  • Open Access
38 Citations
13,084 Views
8 Pages

Balancing Equity and Efficiency in the Allocation of Health Resources—Where Is the Middle Ground?

  • James Avoka Asamani,
  • Samuel Anongiba Alugsi,
  • Hamza Ismaila and
  • Juliet Nabyonga-Orem

24 September 2021

The notion of equity in health service delivery has been embodied in several of the Global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), especially the aspiration for universal health coverage (UHC). At the same time, escalating healthcare costs amidst dwind...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
5,882 Views
16 Pages

Energy Efficient Resource Allocation for M2M Devices in 5G

  • Anum Ali,
  • Ghalib A. Shah and
  • Junaid Arshad

17 April 2019

Resource allocation for machine-type communication (MTC) devices is one of the keys challenges in the 5G network as it affects the lifetime of battery powered devices and also the quality of service of the applications. MTC devices are battery restra...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,988 Views
17 Pages

16 July 2021

Through the establishment of a comprehensive evaluation index system, this paper analyzes the allocation of science and technology resources in the Yangtze River Delta urban agglomeration from 2014 to 2020, evaluates the allocation efficiency of scie...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,081 Views
18 Pages

Infrastructures of access networks that mostly exploit the optical fiber medium effectively utilizing wavelength division multiplexing techniques play a key role in advanced F5G fixed networks. The orbital angular momentum technique is highly promisi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
4,849 Views
15 Pages

23 January 2023

Recently, with the development of autonomous driving technology, vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communication technology that provides a wireless connection between vehicles, pedestrians, and roadside base stations has gained significant attention. Vehi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
124 Views
51 Pages

Optimizing Energy-Efficient Resource Allocation in 5G Autonomous Vehicle Networks Through Deep Reinforcement Learning

  • Khalil M. Abdelnaby,
  • Mohammed A. F. Al-Husainy,
  • Mohammad O. Alhawarat,
  • Mohamed A. Rohaim,
  • Khairy M. Assar and
  • Khaled A. Elshafey

1 July 2026

AVs are also bound to capitalize on 5G networks, which creates crucial challenges in the adaptable management of resources because they need very low latency, a high-speed connection, and energy-efficient functionality. Older approaches to optimizing...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,832 Views
23 Pages

19 November 2021

The allocation efficiency of China’s agricultural science and technology resources (ASTR) varies in different regions and has a complicated spatial distribution pattern. To visually study whether there are correlations and mutual influences bet...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
3,946 Views
14 Pages

An Efficient Pareto Optimal Resource Allocation Scheme in Cognitive Radio-Based Internet of Things Networks

  • Shahzad Latif,
  • Suhail Akraam,
  • Tehmina Karamat,
  • Muhammad Attique Khan,
  • Chadi Altrjman,
  • Senghour Mey and
  • Yunyoung Nam

7 January 2022

The high data rates detail that internet-connected devices have been increasing exponentially. Cognitive radio (CR) is an auspicious technology used to address the resource shortage issue in wireless IoT networks. Resource optimization is considered...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
5,864 Views
24 Pages

28 May 2025

The integration of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) into Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) systems has emerged as a transformative solution for latency-sensitive applications, leveraging UAVs’ unique advantages in mobility, flexible deployment, and on...

  • Article
  • Open Access
72 Citations
6,250 Views
22 Pages

19 December 2019

Wireless body area networks (WBANs) have attracted great attention from both industry and academia as a promising technology for continuous monitoring of physiological signals of the human body. As the sensors in WBANs are typically battery-driven an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,712 Views
34 Pages

12 August 2023

This paper presents a detailed framework for adaptive low-complexity and power-efficient resource allocation in decentralized device-to-device (D2D) networks. The adopted system model considers that active devices can directly communicate via specifi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
3,162 Views
13 Pages

Cognitive radio wireless sensor networks (CR-WSNs) are a type of WSNs that use cognitive radio technology to enhance the spectrum utilization and energy efficiency. This paper proposes an energy-efficient resource allocation algorithm (EERAA) to prol...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,053 Views
24 Pages

12 August 2025

The rapid growth of Long Range (LoRa) devices has led to network congestion, reducing spectrum and energy efficiency. To address this problem, we propose an energy-efficient reinforcement learning method for distributed LoRa networks, enabling each d...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,391 Views
26 Pages

AI-Driven Dynamic Resource Allocation for Energy-Efficient Optical Fiber Communication Networks: Modeling, Algorithms, and Performance Evaluation

  • Askar Abdykadyrov,
  • Gulzada Mussapirova,
  • Nurzhigit Smailov,
  • Zhanna Seissenbiyeva,
  • Gulbakhar Yussupova,
  • Ainur Tasieva,
  • Ainur Kuttybayeva,
  • Altyngul Turebekova,
  • Rizat Kenzhegaliyev and
  • Nurlan Kystaubayev

The object of this research is resource management and energy consumption processes in optical fiber communication networks with access–metro–core architectures. The study addresses the problem that conventional static and semi-dynamic co...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
3,856 Views
16 Pages

29 July 2023

Aiming to address the limitations of traditional resource allocation algorithms in the Internet of Vehicles (IoV), whereby they cannot meet the stringent demands for ultra-low latency and high reliability in vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communication, th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,647 Views
14 Pages

With the rapid growth of data traffic, low earth orbit (LEO) satellite communication networks have gradually ushered in a new trend of development due to its advantages of low latency, wide coverage, and high capacity. However, as a result of the lim...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,947 Views
16 Pages

19 July 2019

Device-to-device (D2D) communication is a promising technique for direct communication to enhance the performance of cellular networks. In order to improve the system throughput and utilization of spectrum resource, a resource allocation mechanism fo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,123 Views
21 Pages

7 January 2025

We looked into the ways in which the digital economy helps to speed up the convergence of environmentally responsible economic efficiency across China’s regions by facilitating the flow and optimization of R&D resources. We measured the mob...

  • Article
  • Open Access
802 Views
23 Pages

Optimizing Cloud Service Composition with Cuckoo Optimization Algorithm for Enhanced Resource Allocation and Energy Efficiency

  • Issam AlHadid,
  • Evon Abu-Taieh,
  • Mohammad Al Rawajbeh,
  • Suha Afaneh,
  • Mohammed E. Daghbosheh,
  • Rami S. Alkhawaldeh,
  • Sufian Khwaldeh and
  • Ala’aldin Alrowwad

18 November 2025

The composition of cloud services plays a vital role in optimizing resource allocation, load balancing, task scheduling, and energy management. However, it remains a significant challenge due to the dynamic nature of workloads and the variability in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,491 Views
18 Pages

18 December 2022

The resource allocation efficiency of the energy industry in the Yangtze River economic belt is related to the green and high-quality development of the region. This study constructed a quantitative model which modified from the traditional HK model...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,194 Views
14 Pages

4 June 2021

Under the current administrative system (AS) in China, the water resources governor allocates limited water resources to several users to realize the utility of water resources, leading to a principal–agent problem. The governor (referred to as the p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
6,966 Views
18 Pages

Optimization of Agricultural Resource Allocation among Crops: A Portfolio Model Analysis

  • Bao-Li Miao,
  • Ying Liu,
  • Yu-Bing Fan,
  • Xue-Jiao Niu,
  • Xiu-Yun Jiang and
  • Zeng Tang

10 October 2023

The portfolio model provides a new framework that enables farmers to make tradeoffs between the returns and risks of agricultural production. However, it has only been used in cost allocation among resources and in farmland allocation among crops at...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
4,243 Views
12 Pages

In order to achieve sustainable development of agriculture, people have gradually begun to attach importance to the development of low-carbon agriculture and to regard green agricultural technology innovation and promotion as increasingly more import...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
6,383 Views
28 Pages

31 May 2022

The balanced allocation of medical and health resources is an important basis for the sustainable development of health undertakings. In recent years, China has made remarkable achievements in the medical and health services, but there is still a phe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
231 Views
30 Pages

1 June 2026

Effective emergency relief allocation in dynamic post-disaster environments depends critically on accurate and timely demand information. From a sustainability perspective, improving allocation accuracy is essential for using scarce rescue resources...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
776 Views
23 Pages

Energy-Efficient 3D Trajectory Optimization and Resource Allocation for UAV-Enabled ISAC Systems

  • Lulu Jing,
  • Hai Wang,
  • Zhen Qin,
  • Yicheng Zhao,
  • Yi Zhu and
  • Wensheng Zhao

21 February 2026

Owing to their high flexibility, autonomous operation, and rapid deployment capability, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) serve as effective aerial platforms for sensing and communication in remote and time-critical scenarios. However, their limited on...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,047 Views
24 Pages

23 August 2024

Resource-based cities had an irreplaceable role in the process of the economic miracle in China. Advancing such cities’ carbon emissions reduction is a crucial aspect of the country’s steady realisation of the dual carbon peak and neutral...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,638 Views
23 Pages

17 April 2025

Promoting water conservation is crucial for building a modern ecological civilization. The water resource tax helps enforce water-saving policies and strict usage controls. The difference-in-differences (DID) method avoids endogeneity and omitted var...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,120 Views
20 Pages

8 August 2025

China has adopted extensive restoration practices to improve ecosystem function. The efficiency of these restoration efforts remains unclear, which may hinder the supply of ecosystem services (ESs). In this context, this study first employed InVEST m...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,301 Views
25 Pages

The growing adoption of serverless computing has highlighted critical challenges in resource allocation, policy fairness, and energy efficiency within multitenancy cloud environments. This research proposes a reinforcement learning (RL)-based adaptiv...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,695 Views
28 Pages

Artificial intelligence (AI) has become an integral driver of digital transformation in the banking sector, fundamentally influencing operational efficiency, resource allocation, and profitability. This study investigates how AI adoption affects the...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,041 Views
17 Pages

6 March 2025

Wireless powered communication networks (WPCNs) provide a sustainable solution for energy-constrained IoT devices by enabling wireless energy transfer (WET) in the downlink and wireless information transmission (WIT) in the uplink. However, their per...

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