Wide area telecommunication network design: application to the Alberta SuperNet

E A Cabral, E Erkut, G Laporte () and R A Patterson
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E A Cabral: University of Alberta
E Erkut: Bilkent University
G Laporte: HEC Montréal
R A Patterson: University of Alberta

Journal of the Operational Research Society, 2008, vol. 59, issue 11, 1460-1470

Abstract: Abstract This article proposes a solution methodology for the design of a wide area telecommunication network. This study is motivated by the Alberta SuperNet project, which provides broadband Internet access to 422 communities across Alberta. There are two components to this problem: the network design itself, consisting of selecting which links will be part of the solution and which nodes should house shelters; and the loading problem which consists of determining which signal transport technology should be installed on the selected edges of the network. Mathematical models are described for these two subproblems. A tabu search algorithm heuristic is developed and tested on randomly generated instances and on Alberta SuperNet data.

Keywords: heuristic; network design; telecommunications (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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