An adaptive large neighbourhood search for designing transparent optical core network

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Abstract

In this paper, we focus on designing a core optical network. Given a set of Metro-Core (MC) nodes, the problem is to select a set of links such that the maximum distance between any pair of nodes is bounded. The primary objective is to minimise the total length of the links followed by a secondary objective which is to minimise the total length of the paths between the pairs of MC nodes. We present a mixed integer programming (MIP) model for this problem. As the size of the instances of this problem increases, the MIP model does not scale in terms of memory and time. We therefore present an adaptive large neighbourhood search (LNS) algorithm where the idea is to find an initial solution and repeatedly improve it by solving relatively small subproblems. We propose two different ways of selecting subproblems. The experiments are performed using 3 real-world network topologies: Ireland, UK and Italy. Our results demonstrate that the developed approach is suitable for solving large networks and it can compute very high quality solutions which are very close to optimal values.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 13th International Conference on Telecommunications, ConTEL 2015
EditorsThomas Plank
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
ISBN (Electronic)9781479989720
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 31 Aug 2015
Event13th International Conference on Telecommunications, ConTEL 2015 - Graz, Austria
Duration: 13 Jul 201515 Jul 2015

Publication series

NameProceedings of the 13th International Conference on Telecommunications, ConTEL 2015

Conference

Conference13th International Conference on Telecommunications, ConTEL 2015
Country/TerritoryAustria
CityGraz
Period13/07/1515/07/15

Keywords

  • Algorithm design and analysis
  • Optical design
  • Optical network units
  • Optical switches
  • Pabive optical networks

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