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To combat the increasing significance of deployment and configuration costs, the concept of a self-deploying, self-configuring radio access network is discussed. It is proposed that the basic sciences of complex systems (cellular automata, game theory, ecology modeling) can be exploited to design algorithms for such a system. An example, taken from the field of cellular automata, is presented for a network capable of self-adaptation to achieve universal radio coverage in a simplified environment.
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Mullany, F.J., Ho, L.T.W., Samuel, L.G., Claussen, H. (2005). Self-deployment, Self-configuration:Critical Future Paradigms for Wireless Access Networks. In: Smirnov, M. (eds) Autonomic Communication. WAC 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3457. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11520184_5
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