Optimal two-tier cellular network design

Author

Ekici, Eylem ; Ersoy, Cem

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Georgia Inst. of Technol., Atlanta, GA, USA

fYear

1999

fDate

1999

Firstpage

312

Lastpage

317

Abstract

One way of improving the performance of cellular networks is to build a second layer of macrocells on top of the microcell level. The system performance can further be increased by using guard channels and allowing calls to overflow to the upper layer when needed. In this study, we used simulated annealing (SA) to determine the design parameters of two-tier cellular networks for which the cost is minimized. We experimented with the SA-based technique on different example problems and obtained promising results

Keywords

microcellular radio; minimisation; simulated annealing; telecommunication congestion control; telecommunication network planning; telecommunication traffic; SA; call overflow; cost minimization; guard channels; macrocell layer; microcell level; optimal network design; performance; simulated annealing; two-tier cellular network; Base stations; Costs; Interference; Land mobile radio cellular systems; Macrocell networks; Microcell networks; Mobile communication; Simulated annealing; System performance; Wireless communication;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer Communications and Networks, 1999. Proceedings. Eight International Conference on

Conference_Location

Boston, MA

ISSN

1095-2055

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5794-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCCN.1999.805536

Filename

805536