Minimizing costs when transmitting information over cellular communication channels
Abstract
Minimizing costs when transmitting information over cellular communication channels
Incoming article date: 20.04.2024The problem of planning the sending of messages in a cellular network to destinations with known needs is considered. It is assumed that the costs of transmitting information on the one hand are proportional to the transmitted volumes and the cost of transmitting a unit of information over the selected communication channels in cases of exceeding the traffic established by the contract with the mobile operator, and on the other hand are associated with a fixed subscription fee for the use of channels, independent of the volume of information transmitted. An indicator of the quality of the plan in this setting is the total cost of sending the entire planned volume of messages. A procedure for reducing the formulated problem to a linear transport problem is proposed. The accuracy of the solution obtained on the basis of the proposed algorithm is estimated.
Keywords: single jump function, transport problem, minimum total cost criterion, computational complexity of the algorithm, confidence interval