Effective base stations location and frequency assignment in mobile radio networks

Most of mobile radio networks that operate nowadays have been designed based on the classical cellular concept. However, during the last decade an interest to find alternate design strategies has raised for several reasons. In general, the traffic density cannot be assumed constant throughout, making necessary the relocation of base stations inside the traffic hot spots. If traffic is characterized in a discrete manner, the optimal base stations location problem can be treated as a well-known problem in signal processing called vector quantization. We found that applying such a design strategy, better frequency assignments for a network can be accomplished.