The COVID-19 pandemic contributed to the cancellation of face-to-face classes at universities around the world. As a result, educational institutions had to radically remodel their teaching-learning techniques, taking into account the use of remote teaching tools and platforms. One of the main problems faced by public institutions is the digital inclusion of students in situations of economic vulnerability. The...
The infrastructure expansion planning in cellular networks, so called Base Station Placement (BSP) problem, is a challenging task that must consider a large set of aspects, and which cannot be expressed as a linear optimization function. The BSP is known to be a NP-hard problem unable to be solved by any deterministic method. Based on some fundamental assumptions of Long Term Evolution - Advanced (LTE-A) networ...