Telecommunication link restoration planning with multiple facility types

Telecommunication link restoration planning with multiple facility types

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Article ID: iaor20023259
Country: Netherlands
Volume: 106
Issue: 1
Start Page Number: 127
End Page Number: 154
Publication Date: Sep 2001
Journal: Annals of Operations Research
Authors: , , ,
Keywords: telecommunications
Abstract:

To ensure uninterrupted service, telecommunication networks contain excess (spare) capacity for rerouting (restoring) traffic in the event of a link failure. We study the NP-hard capacity planning problem of economically installing spare capacity on a network to permit link restoration of steady-state traffic. We present a planning model that incorporates multiple facility types, and develop optimization-based heuristic solution methods based on solving a linear programming relaxation and minimum cost network flow subproblems. We establish bounds on the performance of the algorithms, and discuss problem instances that nearly achieve these worst-case bounds. In tests on three real-world problems and numerous randomly-generated problems containing up to 50 nodes and 150 edges, the heuristics provide good solutions (often within 0.5% of optimality) to problems with single facility type, in equivalent or less time than methods from the literature. For multi-facility problems, the gap between our heuristic solution values and the linear programming bounds are larger. However, for small graphs, we show that the optimal linear programming value does not provide a tight bound on the optimal integer value, and our heuristic solutions are closer to optimality than implied by the gaps.

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