Cloud manufacturing, one of the trends subsumed under Industry 4.0, influences industrial production settings as it transforms resource utilization into a shared on-demand service. Central to cloud manufacturing is the Production as a Service (PaaS) paradigm, which allows intermediaries to...

In this article we propose to partially integrate the antenna positioning (APP) and frequency allocation problems (FAP). The traditional wireless network design process examines these two major issues sequentially in order to avoid the very high complexity associated with the simultaneous...