Article ID: | iaor20031903 |
Country: | United States |
Volume: | 50 |
Issue: | 6 |
Start Page Number: | 968 |
End Page Number: | 980 |
Publication Date: | Nov 2002 |
Journal: | Operations Research |
Authors: | Lenstra Jan Karel, Aardal Karen, Hurkens Cor, Tiourine Sergey |
Keywords: | frequency assignment, cellular radio |
The radio link frequency assignment problem occurs when a network of radio links has to be established. Each link must be assigned an operating frequency from a given domain. The assignment has to satisfy certain restrictions so as to limit the interference between links. The number of frequencies used is to be minimized. Problems of this type were investigated within the CALMA project by a consortium consisting of research groups from Delft, Eindhoven, London, Maastricht, Norwich, and Toulouse. The participants developed optimization algorithms based on branch-and-cut and constraint satisfaction, and approximation techniques including a variety of local search methods, genetic algorithms, neural networks, and potential reduction. These algorithms were tested and compared on a set of real-life instances.