Multi-tier cellular network dimensioning

Wireless communications systems enable the end users to be mobile. The majo rity of the wireless communications networks are cellular networks. Several methods are developed to increase the performance of the cellular networks , which depends on the correct determination of the design parameters as we ll as the architecture of the system and the traffic requirements. In this study, we introduce a Simulated Annealing (SA) based method to determine th e design parameters of a multi-tier cellular network, for which the impleme ntation cost is minimized. The cellular system employs guard channels and a llows calls to overflow to upper tiers. We conducted experiments with the S A-based technique on different example problems in two-tier cellular networ ks and obtained promising results.