My master thesis

This has been a slow week. After the initial euphoria installing Cygwin, I’ve discovered some “issues”:

• Never, never use a user name with non-standard characters. I used my name: Iv?n. Initially it seemed to work fine, but installing X and using svn (for getting Gecode-J sources) is very troublesome.
• GecodeJ could be the answer for modelling and working in Gecode without the pain of using C++, but the current version doesn’t compile. Period. I’m technical savvy enough, I’ve compiled linux kernels, used command line tools without fear, but I simply cannot compile GecodeJ from sources. I hope to resolve the matter this week.

I’ve read:

• Network Optimization trials of a vendor-independent methodology using the Ocelot(R) Tool, by Lawrence Drabeck, Michael Flanagan, Jayanthi Srinivasan…: This paper describes a radio frecuency optimization service to improve performance of cellular networks. The parameters involved in the optimization were: cell-power level, pilot power, antenna tilt and antenna orientation.
• GSM, GPRS and EDGE Performance: Chapter 8, Dynamic Frequency and Channel Allocation: a review of the dynamic and hybrid channel allocation algorithms in GSM.

written by Ivan Tamayo \\ tags: Cygwin, Gecode, GSM, optimization