We consider a multi-layer network design model arising from a real-life telecommunication application where traffic routing decisions imply the installati...

Optical transmission allows massive data transfers thanks to its tremendous transport capacity. Sustained efforts have been made to address the physical co...

Availability requirements in survivable transport networks depend on the type of costumers using the network and the supported services. Nowadays, a variety ...

In today optical WDM networks, capacity expansion is performed by the addition of transport blades (e.g., transceivers) at end nodes of optical fibers. It al...

This paper investigates design methods of protection schemes in survivable WDM networks which use pre-configured protection structures (<i>p</i>-structures) ...

<p>The introduction of new applications that require high bandwidth, high service availability and reliability has generated many researches in the design of...

<p>We propose a new design scheme of resilient Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM) networks by extending and reshaping pre-configured protection tree (<i...

<p>Today, OCS (Optical Circuit Switching) is still the only mature technology for optical transfer, even if it suffers from its coarse granularity under dyn...

<p>In this paper, we present a scalable and agile design for next generation optical backbone networks. We assume each node to be equipped with a MultiServic...

The Protected Working Capacity Envelope (PWCE) concept was proposed by Grover (2004) in order to simplify network and operation management in survivable WDM ...

The multi-agent resource allocation problem corresponds to the negotiation of <i>m</i> resources among <i>n</i> autonomous agents, in order to maximize a soc...

Routing for shared protection has received a lot of interest in the last few years. A large number of the studies focus on minimizing the network transport ...

Routing for Overlapping Segment Shared Protection (OSSP) in multi-domain networks is more difficult than that in single domain networks because of the scalab...

We investigate a first column generation (CG) formulation for the design of failure independent path-protecting (FIPP) <i>p</i> -cycle survivable transport ...

We study two basic problems of probabilistic reasoning: the probabilistic logic and the probabilistic entailment problems. The first one can be defined as f...

We present a review of several column generation formulations for the Routing and Wavelength Assignment (RWA) problem with the objective of minimizing the b...

The dynamic routing problem for Overlapped Segment Shared Protection in multi-domain networks has not received a lot of interest so far as it is more difficu...

Convolutional Self-Doubly Orthogonal Codes (CSO²C) have been introduced in 1998 by Haccoun et al. as a novel class of convolutional codes which c...

We study the problem of routing and wavelength assignment (RWA) in a WDM optical network under different hop assumptions, i.e., with and without wavelength ...

We present an exact algorithm for solving the channel assignment problem in cellular telephony networks. This problem consists of assigning sets of channels...