Quality of service (QoS) assurance is a major concern in media-on-demand (MoD) systems. Admission control is one of the most important issues that need to be addressed for QoS ass...
Motivated by an underground mining operation at Kiruna, Sweden, we formulate a mixed integer program to schedule iron ore production over multiple time periods. Our optimization m...
Abstract. We consider the network design problem which consists in determining at minimum cost a 2-edge connected network such that the shortest cycle (a "ring") to which...
Bernard Fortz, Ali Ridha Mahjoub, S. Thomas McCorm...
In this paper, we propose a bandwidth-efficient multicast mechanism for heterogeneous wireless networks. We reduce the bandwidth cost of an Internet Protocol (IP) multicast tree by...
Abstract— In this paper we consider the problem of provisioning spare capacity in two-layer backbone networks using shared backup path protection. First, two spare capacity alloc...