Network Optimization with Concave Costs

author

  • S. Ketabi
Abstract:

In this paper the problem of minimum cost communication network design is considered where the costs are piecewise linear concave. Several methods are compared: Simulated Annealing method, a heuristic based on the method proposed by Minoux, and a lagrangian method based on lower bounding procedure.

Upgrade to premium to download articles

Sign up to access the full text

Already have an account?login

similar resources

network optimization with piecewise linear convex costs

the problem of finding the minimum cost multi-commodity flow in an undirected and completenetwork is studied when the link costs are piecewise linear and convex. the arc-path model and overflowmodel are presented to formulate the problem. the results suggest that the new overflow model outperformsthe classical arc-path model for this problem. the classical revised simplex, frank and wolf and a ...

full text

The Virtual Private Network Design Problem with Concave Costs

The symmetric Virtual Private Network Design (VPND) problem is concerned with buying capacity on links (edges) in a communication network such that certain traffic demands can be met. The precise definition is below. It was shown by Fingerhut, Suri and Turner [3] and later, independently, by Gupta, Kleinberg, Kumar, Rastogi and Yener [8] that VPND can be solved in polynomial time if it has the ...

full text

Experiments on Virtual Private Network Design with Concave Capacity Costs

For the first time in the literature, the paper considers computational aspects of concave cost virtual private network design problems. It introduces careful bound tightening mechanisms and computationally demonstrate how such bound tightening could impressively improve convex relaxations of the problem. It turns out that, incorporating such bound tightening with a general solution approach co...

full text

Supply Chain Network Design with Concave Costs: Theory and Applications

Many practical decision models can be formulated as concave minimization problems. Supply chain network design problems (SCNDP) that explicitly account for economies-ofscale and/or risk pooling often lead to mathematical problems with a concave objective and linear constraints. In this thesis, we propose new solution approaches for this class of problems and use them to tackle new applications....

full text

Network Optimization with Piecewise Linear Convex Costs

The problem of finding the minimum cost multi-commodity flow in an undirected and complete network is studied when the link costs are piecewise linear and convex. The arc-path model and overflow model are presented to formulate the problem. The results suggest that the new overflow model outperforms the classical arc-path model for this problem. The classical revised simplex, Frank and Wolf and...

full text

My Resources

Save resource for easier access later

Save to my library Already added to my library

{@ msg_add @}


Journal title

volume 20  issue 1

pages  127- 135

publication date 2001-07

By following a journal you will be notified via email when a new issue of this journal is published.

Keywords

Hosted on Doprax cloud platform doprax.com

copyright © 2015-2023