Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10316/114698
Title: Automatic Design of Telecom Networks with Genetic Algorithms
Authors: Correia, João 
Gama, Gustavo
Guerrinha, João Tiago
Cadime, Ricardo
Antero Carvalhido, Pedro
Vieira, Tiago
Lourenço, Nuno 
Keywords: Genetic Algorithms; Automatic Design; Design of Networks
Issue Date: 2023
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Project: POCI- 01-0247-FEDER-070365 
UIDB/00326/2020 
UIDP/00326/2020 
metadata.degois.publication.title: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
metadata.degois.publication.volume: 13989
Abstract: With the increasing demand for high-quality internet ser- vices, deploying GPON/Fiber-to-the-Home networks is one of the biggest challenges that internet providers have to deal with due to the signi - cant investments involved. Automated network design usage becomes more critical to aid with planning the network by minimising the costs of planning and deployment. The main objective is to tackle this problem of optimisation of networks that requires taking into account multiple factors such as the equipment placement and their con guration, the op- timisation of the cable routes, the optimisation of the clients' allocation and other constraints involved in the minimisation problem. An AI-based solution is proposed to automate network design, which is a task typi- cally done manually by teams of engineers. It is a di cult task requiring signi cant time to complete manually. To alleviate this tiresome task, we proposed a Genetic Algorithm using a two-level representation to design the networks automatically. To validate the approach, we compare the quality of the generated solutions with the handmade design ones that are deployed in the real world. The results show that our method can save costs and time in nding suitable and better solutions than existing ones, indicating its potential as a support design tool of solutions for GPON/Fiber-to-the-Home networks. In concrete, in the two scenarios where we validate our proposal, our approach can cut costs by 31% and by 52.2%, respectively, when compared with existing handmade ones, showcasing and validating the potential of the proposed approach.
URI: https://hdl.handle.net/10316/114698
ISSN: 0302-9743
1611-3349
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-30229-9_18
Rights: openAccess
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