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Cost estimation of a fixed network deployment over an urban territory

Networking and Internet Architecture 2017-01-13 v1

Abstract

Using theoretical results presented in former papers, two prototypes were developed, aiming at estimating within minutes the cost of a fibre network deployment on a given territory. The first one helps defining the limit of an urban territory and computes mathematical parameters representing its street system. The second one gives global information on a fixed network deployment on this territory, namely the probability distributions of distances and attenuation from a node of the network to the final customer, and an evaluation of the deployment cost, once given an architecture and engineering rules. This allows a final user to easily design various network architectures in the tool, to compare different deployment scenarios, and to optimize the budget and the efficiency of the network in a few minutes. The results were compared on two real French urban territories (in Tours and Rouen) to those given by an optimization tool currently used by Orange.

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@article{arxiv.1701.03417,
  title  = {Cost estimation of a fixed network deployment over an urban territory},
  author = {Catherine Gloaguen and Elie Cali},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1701.03417},
  year   = {2017}
}