Effect of switching cells on mobile networks by the ant colony method

The effect of switching cells of a mobile network is a NP-complete problem, necessitating recourse to a heuristic approach to resolve the problem in an acceptable time. This article proposes an application of the metaheuristic of ant colony optimisation for the resolution of this problem. Our approach, like its implementation, is relatively efficient in terms of quality of solution provided and in terms of the execution of the algorithm. The solutions provided by our better variation are similar to those generated by other methods having given the best results, for an inferior execution time of the algorithms.