Genetic algorithm for satellite customer assignment

  • Authors:
  • S. S. Kim;H. J. Kim;V. Mani;C. H. Kim

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Industrial Engineering, Kangwon National University, Chunchon, Korea;Department of Control and Instrumentation Engineering, Kangwon National University, Chunchon, Korea;Department of Aerospace Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India;Department of Industrial Engineering, Kangwon National University, Chunchon, Korea

  • Venue:
  • ICONIP'06 Proceedings of the 13th international conference on Neural information processing - Volume Part III
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

The problem of assigning customers to satellite channels is considered. Finding an optimal allocation of customers to satellite channels is a difficult combinatorial optimization problem and is shown to be NP-complete in an earlier study. We propose a genetic algorithm (GA) approach to search for the best/optimal assignment of customers to satellite channels. Various issues related to genetic algorithms such as solution representation, selection methods, genetic operators and repair of invalid solutions are presented. A comparison of this approach with the standard optimization method is presented to show the advantages of this approach in terms of computation time.