Handbook of optimization in telecommunications

Preface Contributing Authors PART I. OPTIMIZATION ALGORITHMS 1. Interior point methods for large-scale linear programming (J.E. Mitchell, K. Farwell, and D. Ramsden) 2. Nonlinear programming in telecommunications (A. Migdalas) 3. Integer programming for telecommunications (E.K. Lee and D.P. Lewis) 4. Metaheuristics and applications to optimization problems in telecommunications (S.L. Martins and C.C. Ribeiro) 5. Lagrangian relax-and-cut algorithms (A. Lucena) 6. Minimum cost network ow algorithms (J. L. Kennington and R. V. Helgason) 7. Multicommodity network ow models and algorithms in telecommunications (M. Minoux) 8. Shortest path algorithms (P. Festa) PART II. PLANNING AND DESIGN 9. Network planning (H.P.L. Luna) 10. Multicommodity ow problems and decomposition in telecommunications networks (A. Lisser and Ph. Mahey) 11. Telecommunications network design (A. Forsgren and M. Prytz) 12. Ring network design (M. Henningsson, K. Holmberg, and D. Yuan) 13. Telecommunications access network design (T. Carpenter and H. Luss) 14. Optimization issues in distribution network design (G. R. Mateus and Z. K. G. Patrocínio Jr.) 15. Design of survivable networks (B. Fortz and M. Labbé) 16. Design of survivable networks based on p-cycles (W.D. Grover, J. Doucette, A. Kodian, D. Leung, A. Sack, M. Clouqueur, and G. Shen) 17. Optimization issues in quality of service (J.G. Klincewicz) 18. Steiner tree problems in telecommunications (S. Voß) 19. On formulations and methods for the hop-constrained minimum spanning tree problem (G. Dahl, L. Gouveia, and C.Requejo) 20. Location problems in telecommunications (D. Skorin-Kapov, J. Skorin-Kapov, and V. Boljuncic) 21. Pricing and equilibrium in communication networks (Q. Wang) PART III. ROUTING 22. Optimization of Dynamic Routing Networks (G. R. Ash) 23. ILP formulations for the routing and wavelength assignment problem: Symmetric systems (B. Jaumard, C. Meyer, and B. Thiongane) 24. Route optimization in IP networks (J. Rexford) 25. Optimization problems in multicast tree construction (C.A.S. Oliveira, P.M. Pardalos, and M.G.C. Resende) PART IV. RELIABILITY, RESTORATION, AND GROOMING 26. Network reliability optimization (A. Konak and A.E. Smith) 27. Stochastic optimization in telecommunications (A. A. Gaivoronski) 28. Network restoration (D. Medhi) 29. Telecommunication network grooming (R.S. Barr, M.S. Kingsley, and R.A. Patterson) PART V. WIRELESS 30. Graph domination, coloring and cliques in telecommunications (B. Balasundaram and S. Butenko) 31. Optimization in wireless networks (M. Min and A. Chinchuluun) 32. Optimization for planning cellular networks (E. Amaldi, A. Capone, F. Malucelli, and C. Mannino) 33. Load balancing in cellular wireless networks (S. Borst, G. Hampel, I. Saniee, and P. Whiting) PART VI. THE WEB AND BEYOND 34. Optimization issues in web search engines (Z. Liu and Ph. Nain) 35. Optimization in e-commerce (M. Kourgiantakis, I. Mandalianos, P.M. Pardalos, and A. Migdalas) 36. Optimization issues in combinatorial auctions (S. van Hoesel and R. Müller) 37. Supernetworks (A. Nagurney) Index