Title :
Antenna Arrangements in a Telecommunication Network
Author :
Karami, K. ; Khan, Samee U.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., North Dakota State Univ., Fargo, ND, USA
Abstract :
In this paper, we discuss the approach to efficiently place antennas to cover users within a telecommunication network. The main goal is to lower the power and utilities cost while covering all of the users within the telecommunication network. Four heuristics are proposed and compared.
Keywords :
antennas; telecommunication networks; antenna arrangements; power cost; telecommunication network; utilities cost; Antennas; Communications technology; Genetic algorithms; Greedy algorithms; Optimization; Sociology; Statistics; Antenna Arrangement Problem (AAP); Genetic Algorithm; Greedy; Greedy Randomized Adaptive Search Procedures (GRASP); Path Relinking;
Conference_Titel :
Frontiers of Information Technology (FIT), 2012 10th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Islamabad
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-4946-8
DOI :
10.1109/FIT.2012.58
