—Recently network virtualization has been proposed as a promising way to overcome the current ossification of the Internet by allowing multiple heterogeneous virtual networks (V...
N. M. Mosharaf Kabir Chowdhury, Muntasir Raihan Ra...
We study an iterative cutting-plane algorithm on an integer program, for minimizing the staffing costs of a multiskill call center subject to service-level requirements which are e...
Abstract— We explore network design principles for nextgeneration all-optical wide-area networks, employing light-trail technology. Light-trail [1] is a light-wave circuit that a...
Srivatsan Balasubramanian, Ahmed E. Kamal, Arun K....
The state-independent (SI) and state-dependent (SD) path restoration schemes for self-healing networks are studied in this paper. The integer programming (IP) formulations for the...
We study an integrated supply chain design problem that determines the locations of retailers and the assignments of customers to retailers in order to minimize the expected costs...