Article ID: | iaor20001043 |
Country: | United Kingdom |
Volume: | 50 |
Issue: | 3 |
Start Page Number: | 262 |
End Page Number: | 267 |
Publication Date: | Mar 1999 |
Journal: | Journal of the Operational Research Society |
Authors: | Wirth A., Ouveysi I. |
Keywords: | communications |
Traffic volatility and network reliability are important issues in the provision of high speed network services. We consider the construction of a second network, the protection network, which can carry overload traffic due to the failure or congestion of any two links in the original network. The level of protection against such contingencies can be specified by a traffic requirement matrix. We construct a fully connected protection network, for an