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A computational-based methodology for the rapid determination of initial AP location for WLAN deployment

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  • The determination of the optimal location of transceivers is a critical design factor when deploying a wireless local area network (WLAN). The performance of the WLAN will improve in a variety of aspects when the transceivers' locations are adequately determined, including the overall cell coverage to the battery life of the client units. Currently, the most common method to determine the appropriate location of transceivers is known as a site survey, which is normally a very time and energy consuming process. The main objective of this research was to improve current methodologies for the optimal or near-optimal placement of APs in a WLAN installation. To achieve this objective, several improvements and additions were made to an existing computational tool to reflect the evolution that WLAN equipment has experienced in recent years. Major additions to the computational tool included the addition of the capability to handle multiple power levels for the transceivers, the implementation of a more adequate and precise representation of the passive interference sources for the path loss calculations, and the definition of a termination criterion to achieve reasonable computational times without compromising the quality of the solution. An experiment was designed to assess how the improvements made to the computational tool provided the desired balance between computational time and the quality of the solutions obtained. The controlled factors were the level of strictness of the termination criterion (i.e., high or low), and the number of runs performed (i.e., 1, 5, 10, 15, and 20 runs). The low level of strictness proved to dramatically reduce (i.e., from 65 to 70%) the running time required to obtain an acceptable solution when compared to that obtained at the high level of strictness. The quality of the solutions found with a single run was considerably lower than that obtained with the any other number of runs. On the other hand, the quality of the solutions seemed to stabilize at and after 10 runs, indicating that there is no added value to the quality of the solution when 15 or 20 runs are performed. In summary, having the computational tool developed in this research execute 5 runs with the low level of strictness would generate high quality solutions in a reasonable running time.
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