Telecommunications Network Planning

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xix

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2. Multicommodity Capacitated Network Design

   • Bernard Gendron, Teodor Gabriel Crainic, Antonio Frangioni

   Pages 1-19

3. Using Hop-Indexed Models For Constrained Spanning and Steiner Tree Models

   • Luis Gouveia

   Pages 21-32

4. Hierarchical Two Level Location Problems

   • Pierre Chardaire

   Pages 33-54

5. Multi-Hour Dimensioning In Non-Hierarchical Telecommunications Networks

   • George G. Polak, Benjamin T. Smith

   Pages 55-78

6. Issues In ATM Network Planning: An Operations Research Perspective

   • Brunilde Sansò

   Pages 79-99

7. The Common Structure of Packet - and Circuit-Switched Network Synthesis

   • André Girard

   Pages 101-119

8. Loss Models For Broadband Networks With Non-Linear Constraint Functions

   • William Liang, Keith W. Ross

   Pages 121-134

9. Reliability Issues In Telecommunications Network Planning

   • Charles J. Colbourn

   Pages 135-146

10. Design and Dimensioning of Survivable SDH/Sonet Networks

    • Patrick Soriano, Christelle Wynants, René Séguin, Martine Labbé, Michel Gendreau, Bernard Fortz

    Pages 147-167

11. Comparative Methods and Issues In Design of Mesh-Restorable STM and ATM Networks

    • W. D. Grover, R. R. Iraschko, Y. Zheng

    Pages 169-200

12. Fault Tolerant Virtual Path Layout: Optimization Models

    • Michael O. Ball, Andrew Vakhutinsky

    Pages 201-218

13. Survey of Research Issues In LEO/MEO Based Global Mobile Communication Systems

    • Bezalel Gavish

    Pages 219-238

14. Mathematical Models and Exact Methods For Channel Assignment in Cellular Networks

    • Brigitte Jaumard, Odile Marcotte, Christophe Meyer

    Pages 239-255

15. Tile Covers, Closed Tours and The Radio Spectrum

    • Jeannette Janssen, Kyriakos Kilakos

    Pages 257-270

Telecommunications - central to our daily lives - continues to change dramatically. These changes are the result of technological advances, deregulation, the proliferation of broadband service offers, and the spectacular popularity of the Internet and wireless services. In such adynamic technological and economic environment, competition is increasing among service providers and among equipment manufacturers. Consequently, optimization of the planning process is becoming essential. Although telecommunications network planning has been tackled by the Operations Research community for some time, many fundamental problems remain challenging. Through its fourteen chapters, this book covers some new and some still challenging older problems which arise in the planning of telecommunication networks.
Telecommunications Network Planning will benefit both telecommunications practitioners looking for efficient methods to solve their problems and operations researchers interested in telecommunications. The book examines network design and dimensioning problems; it explores Operation Research issues related to a new standard Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM); it overviews problems that arise when designing survivable SDH/SONET Networks; it considers some broadband network problems; and it concludes with three chapters on wireless and mobile networks. Leading area researchers have contributed their recent research on the telecommunications and network topics treated in the volume.

• ATM
• Deregulation
• Internet
• Mobile
• communication
• communication system
• communication systems
• operations research
• optimization
• switch

• École Polytechnique de Montréal, Canada

  Brunilde Sansò

• École des Hautes Études Commerciales de Montréal, Canada

  Patrick Soriano

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