A parallel evolutionary algorithm applied to the minimum interference frequency assignment problem

This article presents the application of a Parallel Evolutionary Algorithm to solve the Minimum Interference Frequency Assignment Problem (MI-FAP). This is a capital problem in the mobile telecommunication field, which proposes to find an assignation of a set of frequencies to minimize the communica...

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Autores principales: Mora, Gerardo, Perfumo, Cristian, Rojas, Lucas, Nesmachnow, Sergio
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Publicado: 2006
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Acceso en línea:http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/22625
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Sumario:This article presents the application of a Parallel Evolutionary Algorithm to solve the Minimum Interference Frequency Assignment Problem (MI-FAP). This is a capital problem in the mobile telecommunication field, which proposes to find an assignation of a set of frequencies to minimize the communication interference. MI-FAP is a NP-Complete optimization problem; so traditional exact algorithms are useless for solving real-life problem instances in reasonable execution times. This work proposes to use a metaheuristic approach to find good quality solutions for real-life MIFAP instances never faced before using Evolutionary Algorithms. Evaluation experiments performed on those real-life instances report promising numerical results for both serial and parallel models of the algorithm proposed. In addition, the parallel version shows high levels of computational efficiency, demonstrating a superlinear speedup behavior for the instances studied