UMTS Base Station Location Planning with Invasive Weed Optimization
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چکیده
The problem of finding optimal locations of base stations, their pilot powers and channel assignments in UMTS mobile networks belongs to a class of NP-hard problems, and hence, metaheuristics optimization algorithms are widely used for this task. Invasive Weed Optimization (IWO) algorithm is relatively novel and succussed in several real-world applications. Our experiments demonstrate that the IWO algorithm outperforms the algorithms such as Evolutionary Strategies (ES) and Genetic Algorithms (GA) for optimizing the UMTS mobile network.
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