The binding energies of hydrogenic donor in both finite and infinite GaAs-(Ga,Al)As spherical quantum dots are calculated as a function of the donor position for different radii within the effective-mass approximation. It is observed an enhancement of the binding energy of donors in quantum dots when compared to results in quantum wells and quantum-well wires, which is an expected consequence of the higher geometrical electronic confinement in these systems. The density of impurity states as a function of the donor binding energy was also calculated. As a general feature it presents structures associated with special impurity positions that may be important in the understanding of the absorption and photoluminescence experiments of doped quantum dots.

A quantum-mechanical calculation of radiative recombinations in cylindrical GaAs-͑Ga,Al͒As quantum-well wires excited by a cw laser in a photoluminescence experiment under quasistationary excitation conditions is performed. We work within the effective-mass approximation and the parabolic-band model for describing both electrons and holes, and consider, in the steady state, the interband absorption, and some radiative recombination mechanisms, such as recombination of electrons with free holes and with holes bound at acceptors. Carrier densities and electron-hole recombination decay times are calculated at room temperature and as functions of the laser intensity. For doped quantum-well wires, it is shown that the presence of acceptors substantially modifies the dependence on the laser intensity of the above quantities.

The binding energy of shallow hydrogenic impurities in a spherical quantum dot under isotropic hydrostatic pressure is calculated using a variational approach within the effective mass approximation. The binding energy is computed as a function of hydrostatic pressure, dot size and impurity position. The results show that the impurity binding energy increases with the pressure for any position of the impurity. Also, we have found that the binding energy depends on the location of the impurity and the pressure effects are less pronounced for impurities on the edge.

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A fundamental problem in third‐generation mobile systems is the adaptation of the channel allocation to the traffic volume variation. Traffic adaptation may be partly achieved by the following (aggregate channel allocation) problem: given the set of channels, the cell structure and the load to be accommodated in each cell within a certain time zone, find the optimal allocation of channels to cells subject to the restrictions arising from the minimum permissible distance of cells where the same channel can be used at the same time. In this paper the problem is optimally formulated and efficiently solved by a heuristic. In the sequel the performance of a combined channel management scheme that uses the above problem for handling major traffic variations and a distributed DCA scheme for handling local traffic variations is assessed. Finally, results are presented and some concluding remarks are made. © 1998 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.