Self-deployment, self-configuration: critical future paradigms for wireless access networks

  • Authors:
  • Francis J. Mullany;Lester T. W. Ho;Louis G. Samuel;Holger Claussen

  • Affiliations:
  • Bell Labs Research, Lucent Technologies, The Quadrant, Westlea, Swindon, United Kingdom;Bell Labs Research, Lucent Technologies, The Quadrant, Westlea, Swindon, United Kingdom;Bell Labs Research, Lucent Technologies, The Quadrant, Westlea, Swindon, United Kingdom;Bell Labs Research, Lucent Technologies, The Quadrant, Westlea, Swindon, United Kingdom

  • Venue:
  • WAC'04 Proceedings of the First international IFIP conference on Autonomic Communication
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

To combat the increasing significance of deployment and configuration costs, the concept of a self-deploying, self-configuring radio access network is discussed. It is proposed that the basic sciences of complex systems (cellular automata, game theory, ecology modeling) can be exploited to design algorithms for such a system. An example, taken from the field of cellular automata, is presented for a network capable of self-adaptation to achieve universal radio coverage in a simplified environment.