Optimal radio channel assignment through a new binary dynamic simulated annealing algorithm
Fahad S. Al-Khaled · International Journal of Communication Systems · 1998
The radio channel assignment problem (CAP) is classified as an NP-complete binary optimization problem, which creates the need for faster, yet optimal optimization algorithms to reduce the time of computation when solving such a complex problem. Simulated annealing (SA), a powerful optimal combinatorial search algorithm, was found to be very suitable for CAP. This paper extends the standard capabilities of SA and proposes a new CAP-oriented, quicker binary SA, the binary dynamic SA (BDSA) algorithm, as part of a newly proposed radio channel assignment approach. Simulation results proved that the proposed BDSA has very fast convergence as a stand-alone algorithm and even faster convergence with the newly proposed radio channel assignment approach. © 1998 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.