Spatial Mappings for Planning and Optimization of Cellular Networks

Optimization Problems and Models for Planning Cellular Networks

During the last decade the tremendous success of mobile phone systems has triggered considerable technological advances as well as the investigation of mathematical models and optimization algorithms to support planning and management decisions. In this chapter, we give an overview of some of the most significant optimization problems arising in planning second and third generation cellular net...

Ant Colony Optimization for Location Area Planning in Cellular Networks

Location Area(LA) planning has critical impact on cellular network design. It is characterized by the tradeoff between the location updates overhead and the paging cost. The LA size could be made as large as the service area of main switching centre, and hence minimizing the registration overhead at the expense of maximizing the paging cost. On the other hand, if each cell is taken as an LA, th...

An Ant-Colony Optimization Clustering Model for Cellular Automata Routing in Wireless Sensor Networks

High efficient routing is an important issue for the design of wireless sensor network (WSN) protocols to meet the severe hardware and resource constraints. This paper presents an inclusive evolutionary reinforcement method. The proposed approach is a combination of Cellular Automata (CA) and Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) techniques in order to create collision-free trajectories for every agent...

Planning for Protected Areas Using Spatial and Temporal Metrics

A Novel Method for Designing and Optimization of Networks

In this paper, system planning network is formulated with mixed-integer programming. Two meta-heuristic procedures are considered for this problem. The cost function of this problem consists of the capital investment cost in discrete form, the cost of transmission losses and the power generation costs. The DC load flow equations for the network are embedded in the constraints of the mathematica...