Fast wide area network design optimisation using differential evolution

Proceedings - International Conference on Advanced Engineering Computing and Applications in Sciences, ADVCOMP 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 3-10

  Priem Mendes, Sílvio ^a,b   Gómez Pulido, Juan A ^b   Vega Rodríguez, Miguel A ^b   Pereira, António M ^a   Sánchez Pérez, Juan M ^b  

^a POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE OF LEIRIA   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXTREMADURA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Base station transmitters; Bio inspired optimisation; Differential evolution; Mathematical techniques in telecommunications; Radio networks

Indexed keywords

BOOLEAN FUNCTIONS; COMPUTER AIDED ENGINEERING; COMPUTER NETWORKS; DIGITAL ARITHMETIC; EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS; HEURISTIC ALGORITHMS; RADIO BROADCASTING; RADIO TRANSMITTERS; TRANSMITTERS;

ADVANCED ENGINEERING; BASE STATION TRANSMITTERS; BIO-INSPIRED; CLASSICAL APPROACHES; DIFFERENTIAL EVOLUTION (DE); INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES; MAXIMUM COVERAGE; NETWORK DESIGNS; OPTIMAL LOCATIONS; OPTIMISATION; POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS; RADIO NETWORK DESIGN (RND); RESEARCH WORKS; WIDE AREA;

WIDE AREA NETWORKS;

EID: 47349089685     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ADVCOMP.2007.12     Document Type: Conference Paper

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