Improving Quality of Experience of Subscribers through Post Deployment Network Planning in UMTS Cellular Networks

• Published in: International journal of business data communications and networking Vol. 8; no. 3; pp. 1 - 27
• Main Authors: Sadhukhan, Samir Kumar, Mandal, Swarup
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Hershey IGI Global 01.07.2012
• Subjects: Ant colony optimization; Cellular communication; Combinatorial analysis; Heuristic; Heuristic methods; Homing; Mapping; Mathematical optimization; Search methods; Simulated annealing; Tabu search; Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS); User experience

It is an established fact that cost of churning is a common concern for being profitable in the cellular network service provider’s space. Service providers can view this problem as a service management problem and can have a solution to enhance the stickiness of subscribers by managing the quality...