TY - GEN
T1 - Automated antenna positioning for wireless networks
AU - Dvir, Amit
AU - Ben-Shimol, Yehuda
AU - Ben-Yehezkel, Yoav
AU - Segal, Michael
AU - Ben-Moshe, Boaz
PY - 2006/10/3
Y1 - 2006/10/3
N2 - This article addresses a real-life problem - obtaining communication links between multiple base stations sites, by positioning a minimal set of fixed-access relay antenna sites on a given terrain. Reducing the number of relay antenna sites is considered critical due to substantial installation and maintenance costs. Despite the potential significant cost saving by eliminating even a single antenna site, a hardly optimal manual approach is employed due to the computation complexity of the problem. We suggest several alternative automated heuristics, relying on terrain preprocessing to find educated potential points for positioning relay stations. A large-scale experiment was conducted showing that the saving potential increases when more BSs are required to be interconnected and in any case is better than the one obtained by a human expert.
AB - This article addresses a real-life problem - obtaining communication links between multiple base stations sites, by positioning a minimal set of fixed-access relay antenna sites on a given terrain. Reducing the number of relay antenna sites is considered critical due to substantial installation and maintenance costs. Despite the potential significant cost saving by eliminating even a single antenna site, a hardly optimal manual approach is employed due to the computation complexity of the problem. We suggest several alternative automated heuristics, relying on terrain preprocessing to find educated potential points for positioning relay stations. A large-scale experiment was conducted showing that the saving potential increases when more BSs are required to be interconnected and in any case is better than the one obtained by a human expert.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=33749051426&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/CCNC.2006.1593169
DO - 10.1109/CCNC.2006.1593169
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:33749051426
SN - 1424400856
SN - 9781424400850
T3 - 2006 3rd IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference, CCNC 2006
SP - 902
EP - 906
BT - 2006 3rd IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference, CCNC 2006
T2 - 2006 3rd IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference, CCNC 2006
Y2 - 8 January 2006 through 10 January 2006
ER -