A wireless network for train commuters
The scope of this project is to model and simulate a WiFi network whose antennas can be installed certain points of a railroad network. The network must be at minimum cost so that the we can highlight the benefit to commuters who choose to travel by train instead of driving: they can start to work an hour earlier and finish an hour later.
Definition:
- A railroad line between two cities, and its path through a certain region
- A large set of points along the railroad where an antenna for wireless
- Cost of installing a given antenna along the railroad
- Connection constraints: depending on the train speed, the connection between a terminal (commuter’s laptop) and the antenna will be quite bumpy. We need to ensure smooth web surfing by requiring that a terminal be connected to two or more antennas at a time.
Formulate and solve an Optimization model for this problem. Then define a simulation model and run it to highlight the transient phase at each connection change between two antennas.
The data of a set of instances will provided soon.