Research Article
Cost-Performance Planning of Municipal Wireless Access Networks
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-642-04648-3_4, author={Paolo Giacomazzi and Alessandro Poli}, title={Cost-Performance Planning of Municipal Wireless Access Networks}, proceedings={AccessNets. Third International Conference on Access Networks, AccessNets 2008, Las Vegas, NV, USA, October 15-17, 2008. Revised Papers}, proceedings_a={ACCESSNETS}, year={2012}, month={5}, keywords={access networks wireless municipal planning optimization cost performance}, doi={10.1007/978-3-642-04648-3_4} }- Paolo Giacomazzi
Alessandro Poli
Year: 2012
Cost-Performance Planning of Municipal Wireless Access Networks
ACCESSNETS
Springer
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-04648-3_4
Abstract
Planning Municipal Wireless Access Networks is a challenging task, since many optimization choices must be taken into account in large metropolitan areas and, in turn, the number of free variables is very large, on the order of several millions, if the position of wireless access points is to be optimized, as well as their connection to the backbone network. This paper formalizes the problem of choosing appropriate access points’ locations and to connect the so built wireless access network to the backbone network. We provide an optimization algorithm able to find a solution with a fast heuristic approach, and apply it to a real-world scenario about a 51 km area of Milano (Italy). The proposed heuristic solution is compared with the result of a simulated-annealing-based optimization algorithm and the result is that the cost of the solutions of the heuristic algorithm is larger than that of the optimal solution by a few percents.