A hybrid Hopfield network-simulated annealing approach for frequency assignment in satellite communications systems

  • Authors:
  • S. Salcedo-Sanz;R. Santiago-Mozos;C. Bousono-Calzon

  • Affiliations:
  • Dept. of Signal Theor. & Commun., Univ. Carlos de Madrid, Leganes-Madrid, Spain;-;-

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part B: Cybernetics
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

A hybrid Hopfield network-simulated annealing algorithm (HopSA) is presented for the frequency assignment problem (FAP) in satellite communications. The goal of this NP-complete problem is minimizing the cochannel interference between satellite communication systems by rearranging the frequency assignment, for the systems can accommodate the increasing demands. The HopSA algorithm consists of a fast digital Hopfield neural network which manages the problem constraints hybridized with a simulated annealing which improves the quality of the solutions obtained. We analyze the problem and its formulation, describing and discussing the HopSA algorithm and solving a set of benchmark problems. The results obtained are compared with other existing approaches in order to show the performance of the HopSA approach.