Integrated design tools for combined LAN

Nowadays high-performance combined wired and wireless LANs are of great importance for companies and organizations of any size. However, efficient remains a challenge, since existing design tools only provide limited and hardly integrated support. The CANDY project was launched in 2003 with the aim to improve this situation by proposing an integrated design methodology with extensive tool support for all network design sub-tasks. This paper illustrates the CANDY network design methodology by giving an overview of the integrated design approach and presenting two advanced algorithms for design of wireless local area networks.