UMTS network planning using genetic algorithms

Abstract

The continuously growing of cellular net complexity, that followed the introduction of UMTS technology, has reduced the usefulness of traditional design tools, making them quite unworthy.The purpose of this paper is to illustrate a design tool for UMTS optimized net planning based on genetic algorithms. In particular, some utilities for 3G net designers, useful to respect important aspects (such as the environmental one) of the cellular net, are shown.

Optimal Territorial Resources Placement for Multipurpose Wireless Services Using Genetic Algorithms

“…Naturally these are only some of the conditions that can be imposed to the algorithm. In general it's possible to use different kind of resources, to have a non-uniform coverage like in urban environment, to consider the coverage of the sensors in 2 or 3 dimensions, to have resources already placed [4,5] on the ground. All these conditions make the problem represented by a multi-objective and non-linear function so it's quite difficult to find an optimal solution.…”