Assignment of cells to switches in PCS networks
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
A hybrid neural approach to combinatorial optimization
Computers and Operations Research - Special issue: artificial intelligence, evolutionary programming and operations research
Emerging mobile and wireless networks
Communications of the ACM
General packet radio service in GSM
IEEE Communications Magazine
Research activities on UMTS radio interface, network architectures, and planning
IEEE Communications Magazine
Design Of Broadband Multiservice Networks
IEEE Communications Magazine
Narrowband and broadband infrastructure design for wireless networks
IEEE Communications Magazine
Network planning for third-generation mobile radio systems
IEEE Communications Magazine
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
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In mobile communication systems, the network segment interconnecting the Base Station (BS) layout with the Base Station Controllers (BSCs) and the BSCs with the Fixed Network Switches (FNSs) should be carefully designed and controlled. This paper presents techniques for the efficient design and control (reconfiguration) of this network segment. The corresponding problems are formally defined and mathematically formulated. Two solutions are presented to the design problem, based on the genetic algorithm and the simulated annealing paradigms. Additionally, a third solution, based on neural networks, is proposed for the control (reconfiguration) problem. Results are provided indicating the efficiency of the proposed algorithms.