ABSTRACT
Many of design problems in telecommunications could be treated as optimization problems that include some kind of searching among a set of potential solutions. The choice of the method depends mostly on the problem complexity. If the number of possible solutions is not too big, one could enumerate them all, evaluate their goal functions, and select the best solution(s). If the function to be optimized is done by a derivative continuous function, analytical methods could be applied. In all other cases, where the problem space is too big and analytical methods are not applicable, some sort of heuristic search for optimal solution could be applied.
