| Article ID: | iaor19932063 |
| Country: | Serbia |
| Volume: | 1 |
| Start Page Number: | 51 |
| End Page Number: | 63 |
| Publication Date: | Dec 1991 |
| Journal: | Yugoslav Journal of Operations Research |
| Authors: | Boffey T.B. |
| Keywords: | networks, computers |
Computer networks are used ever more widely and the investment in them is enormous. It is of great importance that their design should minimise overall cost whilst ensuring that the desired performance criteria are met. This paper contains a discussion of mathematical problems associated with the communications subnet of a wide area computer network, and the state of the art in solving them.