Article ID: | iaor20022970 |
Country: | Netherlands |
Volume: | 104 |
Issue: | 1 |
Start Page Number: | 163 |
End Page Number: | 180 |
Publication Date: | Apr 2001 |
Journal: | Annals of Operations Research |
Authors: | Medova E.A., Scott J.E. |
Keywords: | programming: mathematical, communications |
This paper discusses implementation issues concerning a telecommunications planning system for networks with hypothetical multimedia stochastic traffic. Stochasticity of the traffic and probabilistic statements about service commitment are captured by a chance-constrained stochastic programming formulation of the complex network dimensioning and traffic management problem treated in our previous work. Our approach involves a hierarchy of design objectives associated with the respective network layers. These are met by constituting a set of models – the Integrated Network Design System – with common data, ‘solvers’ and a graphical user interface operating under the interactive control of the network planner.