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arxiveess.SPcs.ET2026-07-06

Optimal Base Station Placement for Beyond 5G Networks with Non-Convex Topology

Mohamed Shalma, Amr Mansour, Ahmed El-Mahdy

This paper investigates the optimal placement of a millimeter-wave (mmWave) base station (BS) within a realistic U-shaped environment with non-convex topology. The problem is challenging and NP-hard due to the non-convex topology and the non-convex objective functions which are the sum-rate maximization and max-min fairness, the latter being additionally non-smooth. To address this challenge, the BS placement is formulated as a Markov Decision Process (MDP). Then, we propose two deep reinforcement learning (DRL) techniques: First, the deployment area is discretized into a grid and optimized using a Deep Q-Network (DQN). Second, the U-shaped region is partitioned into continuous subspaces, where a Deep Deterministic Policy Gradient (DDPG) agent is dedicated to each subspace then the best BS placement is selected among partitions. Results demonstrate that optimal placement achieves full coverage and yields a Jain index of 0.99. Furthermore, the proposed partitioned multi-space DDPG achieves better solution than DQN with lower complexity.

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