On cellular network channels data mining and decision making through ant colony optimization and multi agent systems strategies

Finding suitable channels to allocate in order to serve increasing user demands in a cellular network, which is a dynamical system, constitute the most important issue in terms of network performance since they define the bandwidth management methodology. In modern cellular networks these strategies become challenging issues especially when advanced services are applied. The effectiveness of decision making for channel allocation in a cellular network is strongly connected to current traffic and wireless environment conditions. Moreover, in large scale environments, network states change dynamically and the network performance prediction is a hard task. In the recent literature, the network adaptation to current real user needs seems it could be achieved through computational intelligence based channel allocation schemes mainly involving genetic algorithms. In this paper, a quite new approach for communication channels decision making, based on ant colony optimization, which is a special form of swarm intelligence, modelled through multi agent methodology is presented. The main novelty of this research lies on modelling this optimization scheme through multi agent systems. The simulation model architecture which includes network and ant agents are also presented as well as the performance results based on the above techniques. Finally, the current study, also, shows that there is a great field of research concerning intelligent techniques modelled through multi-agent methodologies focused on channels decision making and bandwidth management in wireless communication systems.