Coverage planning for outdoor wireless LAN systems

2002 International Zurich Seminar on Broadband Communications Access - Transmission - Networking: Meeting the Challenge of High-Speed Communications, IZS 2002 - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages 49.1-49.6

  Kamenetsky, M ^a   Unbehaun, M ^b  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

^b ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

coverage planning; neighborhood search; network deployment; outdoor coverage; pruning; simulated annealing; wireless LAN

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; APPROXIMATION ALGORITHMS; COMPLEX NETWORKS; FREQUENCY BANDS; FUNCTION EVALUATION; LOCAL AREA NETWORKS; POLYNOMIAL APPROXIMATION; POLYNOMIALS; QUALITY CONTROL; SIMULATED ANNEALING; TRANSMITTERS; WAVE TRANSMISSION; WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN);

CONTINUOUS OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS; NEIGHBORHOOD SEARCH; NETWORK DEPLOYMENT; OPTIMIZATION ALGORITHMS; OUTDOOR COVERAGE; PRUNING; RANDOM SEARCH ALGORITHM; SIMULATION PARAMETERS;

OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 84962222748     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IZSBC.2002.991793     Document Type: Conference Paper

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