Ant colony approach in optimization of base station position

European Conference on Antennas and Propagation, EuCAP 2009, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 2882-2886

  Vilovic, Ivan ^a   Burum, Niksa ^a   Sipus, Zvonimir ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUBROVNIK   (Croatia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCESS POINTS; ANT COLONIES; ANT COLONY OPTIMIZATION METHODS; CONTINUOUS PROBLEMS; DISCRETE PROBLEMS; GLOBAL SEARCH; INDOOR ENVIRONMENT; MATRIX; MATRIX ELEMENTS; MULTI LAYER PERCEPTRON; NEURAL NETWORK MODEL; OPTIMAL POSITION; OPTIMIZATION METHOD; RANDOMLY DISTRIBUTED; REFLECTION EFFECTS; SIGNAL STRENGTH DISTRIBUTION; SIGNAL STRENGTHS;

ANTENNAS; BASE STATIONS; COST FUNCTIONS; LOCAL AREA NETWORKS; LOCATION; NEURAL NETWORKS; OPTIMIZATION;

WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN);

EID: 70349859953     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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