Telecommunications Infrastructure: problems and solutions

Disaster management and mitigation: the telecommunications infrastructure.

Among the most typical consequences of disasters is the near or complete collapse of terrestrial telecommunications infrastructures (especially the distribution network--the 'last mile') and their concomitant unavailability to the rescuers and the higher echelons of mitigation teams. Even when such damage does not take place, the communications overload/congestion resulting from significantly e...

Inter-infrastructure modeling - ports and telecommunications

During the past year, Bell Laboratories and Sandia National Laboratories have been modeling and simulating cross-industry interactions between infrastructures and the cascading of impacts under disruption scenarios. Critical national infrastructures for importing and exporting goods and materials (e.g., seaboard shipping through ports on the U.S. East and West Coasts) require the support of oth...

Proactive Price Regulation for Upgrading Telecommunications Infrastructure

The extent to which society benefits from an upgrade to a telecommunications network infrastructure depends on when that upgrade occurs. This paper discusses a proactive pricing approach in which the regulator defines a pricing policy to induce a profit-seeking monopoly carrier to upgrade the infrastructure at the socially desirable time. We discuss how the regulator can determine the optimal t...

Telecommunications Infrastructure and Invention, Innovation, and Diffusion Processes

Stochastic Optimization Problems in Telecommunications

We survey different optimization problems under uncertainty which arise in telecommunications. Three levels of decisions are distinguished: design of structural elements of telecommunication networks, top level design of telecommunication networks and design of optimal policies of telecommunication enterprize. Examples of typical problems from each level show that the stochastic programming par...