A new hybrid constraint-based approach for 3G network planning

IEEE Communications Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 277-279

  Wu, Yufei ^a   Pierre, Samuel ^a  

^a ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

3G UMTS; Constraint programming; Local search heuristics; Mobile network planning

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; CONSTRAINT THEORY; HEURISTIC METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION;

CONSTRAINT PROGRAMMING; LOCAL SEARCH HEURISTICS; MOBILE NETWORK PLANNING; THIRD GENERATION NETWORK PLANNING;

MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 2942538563     PISSN: 10897798     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LCOMM.2004.827437     Document Type: Article

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