| Article ID: | iaor20051116 |
| Country: | Netherlands |
| Volume: | 25 |
| Issue: | 3 |
| Start Page Number: | 119 |
| End Page Number: | 129 |
| Publication Date: | Oct 1999 |
| Journal: | Operations Research Letters |
| Authors: | Labb Martine, Maffioli Francesco, Dell'Amico Mauro |
In this paper we address the problem of planning the capacity of the local rings in synchronous optical networks (SONET). We present efficient lower and upper bound procedures and a branch and bound algorithm which is able to find the exact solution of large instances, employing short computing times.