LTE BS placement optimization using simulated annealing in the presence of femtocells

20th European Wireless Conference, EW 2014

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 451-455

  Yaacoub, Elias ^a   Dawy, Zaher ^b  

^a QATAR MOBILITY INNOVATIONS CENTER QMIC   (Qatar)

^b AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT   (Lebanon)

Author keywords

BS deployment; Femtocells; Heterogeneous networks; LTE; Radio network planning; Simulated annealing

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX NETWORKS; FEMTOCELL; HETEROGENEOUS NETWORKS; HEURISTIC METHODS; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; SIMULATED ANNEALING;

BS DEPLOYMENT; FEMTO-CELLS; GEOGRAPHICAL AREA; HEURISTIC TECHNIQUES; LTE; MOBILE NETWORK OPERATORS; PLACEMENT OPTIMIZATION; RADIO NETWORK PLANNING;

WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 84916897702     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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