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Globally Optimal Transmitter Placement for Indoor Wireless Communication Systems

He, J. and Verstak, A. and Watson, L.T. and Stinson, C.A. and Ramakrishnan, N. and Shaffer, C.A. and Rappaport, T.S. and Anderson, C.R. and Bae, K. and Jiang, J. and Tranter, W.H (2002) Globally Optimal Transmitter Placement for Indoor Wireless Communication Systems. Technical Report TR-02-17, Computer Science, Virginia Tech.

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Abstract

In this paper, a global optimization technique is applied to solve the optimal transmitter placement problem for indoor wireless systems. An efficient pattern search algorithm ---DIRECT (DIviding RECTangles) of Jones, Perttunen, and Stuckman(1993)---has been connected to a parallel 3D radio propagation ray tracing modeler running on a 200-node Beowulf cluster of Linux workstations. Surrogate functions for a parallel WCDMA (wideband code division multiple access) simulator were used to estimate the system performance for the global optimization algorithm. Power converage and BER(bit error rate) are considered as two different criteria for optimizing locations of a specified number of transmitters across the feasible region of the design space. This paper briefly describes the undrelying radio propagation and WCDMA simulations and focuses on the design issues of the optimization loop.

Item Type:Departmental Technical Report
Keywords:Bit error rate, DIRECT algorithm,global optimazation, power coverage, ray tracing, surrogate function, transmitter placement, wideband code division multiple access
Subjects:Computer Science > Parallel Computation
ID Code:604
Deposited By:Administrator, Eprints
Deposited On:02 August 2002