Evolutionary algorithms in telecommunications

Telecommunications are an important symbol of our present information society. With a rapidly growing number of user services, telecommunications is a field in which many open research lines are challenging the research community. Many of the problems found in this area can be formulated as optimization tasks. Some examples are assigning frequencies in radio link communications, developing error correcting codes for transmission of messages, and designing the telecommunication network. In practice, most of these optimization tasks are unaffordable with exact techniques. Hence, the utilization of heuristic approaches is in order. In this sense, evolutionary algorithms have constituted a popular choice. This paper summarizes some applications of the telecommunication field in which evolutionary algorithms have been successfully applied