The use of quantitative association rules in cellular network planning

Abstract

This paper describes the problem of planning cellular network base stations with optimization to traffic requirements. This research problem was a main incentive to add some development to the theory of association rules. The new form of quantitative and multi-dimensional association rules, unlike other approaches, does not require the discretization of real value attributes as a preprocessing step. They are discovered with data driven algorithm that gives precise and complete results and has polynomial complexity for a given dimensionality.