Abstract - Wireless communications systems enable the end users to
be mobile. The majority 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 well as the architecture of the system and the traffic
requirements. In this study, we introduce a Simulated Annealing (SA) based
method to determine the design parameters of a multi-tier cellular network,
for which the implementation cost is minimized. The cellular system employs
guard channels and allows calls to overflow to upper tiers. We conducted
experiments with the SA-based technique on different example problems in
two-tier cellular networks and obtained promising results.
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