Methods for optimizing the location of base stations for indoor wireless communications

Author

Ji, Zhong ; Sarkar, Tapan Kumar ; Li, Bin-Hong

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. Eng. & Comput. Sci., Syracuse Univ., NY, USA

Volume

50

Issue

10

fYear

2002

fDate

10/1/2002 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1481

Lastpage

1483

Abstract

When designing wireless communication systems, it is very important to know the optimum locations for the base station antennas. In this paper, a model has been developed to set up an optimization problem, the solution of which provides the information for the optimum location of the base station antennas particularly for an indoor environment. Several methods for the optimization of the cost function are presented and the final results are compared with each other. This methodology can be applied for the design and planning of the location of base station antennas for indoor wireless communication systems. Two numerical examples have been presented to illustrate the application of this methodology.

Keywords

antennas; indoor radio; optimisation; telecommunication network planning; base station antennas; base station location; cost function; indoor wireless communications; optimization; planning; Antennas and propagation; Base stations; Computational modeling; Cost function; Indoor environments; Loss measurement; Mathematical model; Optimization methods; Propagation losses; Wireless communication;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Antennas and Propagation, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-926X

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TAP.2002.802155

Filename

1137545