Optimizing Access Point Allocation Based on Genetic Algorithm with Channel Conflict Detection

Authors : Ramazan Kocaoğlu, M. Hanefi Calp, M. Ali Akcayol

Pages : 153-166

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Publication Date : 2025-05-01

Article Type : Research Paper

Abstract :In recent years, high bandwidth and cost-efficient wireless network technologies have emerged as a competition factor in process of constituting own infrastructure. On the other hand, today\\\'s challenges of designing an effective layout have become an important problem for public institutions and private companies with increasing requests. There are some methods to solve this problem. In this study, a new approach based on a genetic algorithm is proposed to solve the mentioned problem. A simulation is developed to test the success of the algorithm. The most effective layout design of access points is constituted by the distance between access points and the communication channels used in the developed simulation. The obtained experimental results showed that the proposed algorithm successfully achieved the challenge of designing an access point layout in terms of total coverage area and average bandwidth per user.
Keywords : access point allocation, genetic algorithms, optimization, channel conflict