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Wise resource allocation is necessary to increase the quality of service (QoS), the system capacity, the network performance, and also decrease the power consumption and connection cost. This paper, first, investigates the located global system for mobile (GSM) network in a region of Tehran province in Iran as a case of study and then proposes a novel approach to minimize the connection cost among...