Applying CHC algorithms on radio network design for wireless communication

Abstract

The diff usion of wireless communication services (telephone, internet, etc.) is continuously growing these days. Unfortunately, the cost of the equipment to provide the service with the appropriate quality is high. Thus, selecting a set of geographical points allowing optimum coverage of a radio frequency signal by minimizing the use of resources is essential. The above task is called the Radio Network Design (RND) and is a NP-hard problem, i.e., this can be approached by using metaheuristics techniques. Metaheuristics are methods comprising local improvement procedures and high-level strategies for a robust search in the problem space. In this work, different versions of the CHC algorithm with a fitness function based on the efficiency of resource use are proposed. The achieved results are encouraging in terms of efficiency and quality in all the analysed scenarios.