Research Article

Optimal Modeling of Wireless LANs: A Decision-Making Multiobjective Approach

Table 5

Performance of NSGA-II in a small scenario.

Nodes deployedMin.
APs
Min.
coverage
Max.
coverage
AP
location
Time (s)

1165%87%Walls1.47 ± 0.07
22100%100%Walls1.54 ± 0.10
32100%100%Walls1.77 ± 0.05
42100%100%Walls2.10 ± 0.01
52100%100%Walls2.31 ± 0.11
62100%100%Walls2.54 ± 0.10
72100%100%Walls2.90 ± 0.10
82100%100%Walls3.15 ± 0.09
Average2.22 ± 0.07

1165%87%Anywhere1.40 ± 0.11
22100%100%Anywhere1.57 ± 0.08
32100%100%Anywhere1.88 ± 0.09
42100%100%Anywhere2.13 ± 0.14
52100%100%Anywhere2.23 ± 0.20
62100%100%Anywhere2.49 ± 0.16
72100%100%Anywhere3.05 ± 0.13
82100%100%Anywhere3.31 ± 0.24
Average2.25 ± 0.14