• Journal of Information Technology Applications and Management
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• v.13 no.2
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• pp.29-39
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• 2006

There has been a tremendous need for dual homing cell switch assignment problems where calling volume and patterns are different at different times of the day. This problem of assigning cells to switches in the planning phase of mobile networks consists in finding an assignment plan which minimizes the communication costs taking into account some constraints such as capacity of switches. This optimization problem is known to be difficult to solve, such that heuristic methods are usually utilized to find good solutions in a reasonable amount of time. In this paper, we propose an evolutionary approach, based on the genetic algorithm paradigm, for solving this problem. Simulation results confirm the appropriateness and effectiveness of this approach which yields solutions of good quality.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.36 no.2B
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• pp.120-130
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• 2011

Recently the multicast based contents transmission is rapidly increasing due to the various multimedia services and the importance of switching technology to handle it is increasing as a consequence. Though the CICQ architecture has advantages that reduction of HoL blocking probability and simple scheduling using cross point buffer, it has disadvantage that the processing rate of multicast traffic can be significantly degraded corresponds to the traffic load increment. Several schemes have been proposed to solve this problem however they still can't provide enough processing ratio for multicast traffic. Therefore this paper proposes the BA cell assignment scheme and the VT scheme, and the processing rate of multicast traffic can be guaranteed by reducing the HoL blocking probability of multicast traffic and reservation of cross point buffer. Also simulation results verify that using the proposed scheme, the QoS of multicast service can be improved.