Fast ray-tracing for field strength prediction in cellular mobile network planning

Optimized network dimensioning and planning for WiMAX technology

“…This feature means that SA, in contrast to iterative improvement, can escape from local minima while it still exhibits the favorable features of iterative improvement, i.e simplicity and general applicability. Simulated annealing has been widely used within the area of cellular network planning[101,64,134,28,17,105,83].It can be seen that all the listed techniques have been successfully used to tackle the fundamental problems of cellular network planning and frequency planning. With no theoretical prove of one method being superior to another, that is also confirmed in No Free Lunch theorem[147] which states: 'For all possible performance measures, no search algorithm is better than another when its performance is averaged over all possible discrete functions', the following criteria can be considered when selecting the optimization technique for network planning: the objectives of network planning, techniques employed in the framework, the required quality of solution, computation time and other technique-specific considerations.…”