Adaptive cell tower location using geostatistics

Geographical Analysis

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 227-244

  Akella, Mohan R ^a   Delmelle, Eric ^b   Batta, Rajan ^c,d   Rogerson, Peter ^d,e   Blatt, Alan ^f  

^a Strategy and Operations   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE   (United States)

^c the State University of New York   (United States)

^d National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^f CUBRC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX TERRAIN; COMPLEXITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORRELATION; FACILITY LOCATION; GEOSTATISTICS; KRIGING; MOBILE COMMUNICATION; NONLINEARITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; OPTIMIZATION; PROBABILITY; SAMPLING; SIMULATED ANNEALING; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ERIE COUNTY [NEW YORK]; NEW YORK [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77955166021     PISSN: 00167363     EISSN: 15384632     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1538-4632.2010.00791.x     Document Type: Article

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