OPTIMIZATION ALGORITHMS FOR ACCESS POINT DEPLOYMENT IN WIRELESS NETWORKS

Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs) have become very popular as they provide mobility for the nodes and the convenience with which such networks can be setup. However, there are important design considerations while setting up such networks. This paper focuses on the issues in the design of wireless networks and discusses several proposed techniques. The important issues are node coverage, co-channel interference, signal strength and the desired bandwidth at the nodes. Several solutions have been proposed to address these issues and these solutions are based on Discrete gradient optimization algorithm[1], Genetic Algorithmic approach[8] and Global Optimization technique[4]. In this paper we review these three techniques and propose a new search technique based on Heuristic approach.