Cellular Network Design Site Selection and Frequency Planning

Annals of Operations Research

Volumn 106, Issue 1-4, 2001, Pages 287-306

  Dutta, Amitava ^a   Hsu, Vernon ^a  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cellular networks; Integer programming; Modeling; Planning

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035566339     PISSN: 02545330     EISSN: 15729338     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1014522011336     Document Type: Article

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