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标题：DECISION MAKING TOOLS IN CELLULAR TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORK DESIGN: GIS AND NLP
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作者：Joon-Yeoul Oh ; Jaehyung Yu ; Richard Aukerman 等
期刊名称：Issues in Information Systems
印刷版ISSN：1529-7314
出版年度：2007
卷号：8
期号：2
页码：97-102
出版社：International Association for Computer Information Systems
摘要：Using the correct tools to make a decision is very important to the decision makers. In this paper two supporting tools, Geographic Information Systems and Nonlinear Programming, are introduced to select the optimal location of a Mobile Telephone Switching Office in the cellular telecommunication network design. The cellular telecommunication network system often encounters capacity inadequacy issues due to an increase in the number of subscribers and the related data traffic. Installing a Mobile Telephone Switching Office (MTSO) is a common method used to increase the network capacity. Selecting the installation location of MTSO is critical due to its direct relationship to the installation cost and call routings. Candidate areas are selected using a Geographic Information Systems technique. A non-linear programming model is developed to solve the MTSO’s optimal location problem of selecting a spot among the candidate sites, and two test cases are implemented and analyzed. Based on the analytical results of the test cases, this paper suggests a method of selecting MTSO locations along with the effectiveness of the method.
关键词：Decision-making;Cellular;Telecommunications; Network Design; Optimization;Non-linear Programming; Geographic Information;Systems