The research presented in Telecommunications Planning: Innovations in Pricing, Network Design and Management focuses on the latest methodological developments in three key areas – pricing of telecommunications services, network design, and resource allocation. These three elements are most relevant to current telecommunications planning. The first five chapters cover global deregulation of the telecommunications industry, effective pricing and revenue management, as well as an understanding of competitive pressures are key factors that will improve revenue in telecommunications companies. The next seven chapters outline what successful telecommunications companies of the future will need to do in order to minimize their costs and still meet customer expectations. The final six chapters provide insightful solutions to several resource allocation problems.
Author(s): S. Raghavan, G. Anandalingam
Series: Operations Research Computer Science Interfaces 33
Edition: 1
Publisher: Springer
Year: 2005
Language: English
Pages: 391
Contents......Page 6
Preface......Page 8
1: Pricing and Resource Allocation for Point-to-Point Telecommunication Services in a Competitive Market: A Bilevel Optimization Approach......Page 9
2: Pricing Analysis in International Interconnected Networks......Page 25
3: Modeling Competition Among Wireless Service Providers......Page 45
4: A Supply Network of Oligopoly for The Advanced Intelligent Network......Page 73
5: A Network Provisioning Scheme Based on Decentralized Bandwidth Auctions......Page 96
6: An Optimization-Based Approach to Modeling Internet Topology......Page 108
7: Comparing Survivable Multi-Ring Configurations......Page 144
8: The Effect of Hop Limits on Optimal Cost in Survivable Network Design......Page 158
9: Compact Models for Hop-Constrained Node Survivable Network Design: An Application to MPLS......Page 174
10: A Note on Search by Objective Relaxation......Page 188
11: Minimizing the Number of Wavelength Conversions in WDM Networks with Hybrid Optical Cross-Connects......Page 209
12: An Uninformed Best First Search Based Wavelength Assignment Algorithm to Minimize the Number of SONET ADMs in WDM Rings......Page 231
13: Distributed Control of Flow on Networks of General Topology......Page 246
14: A Combinatorial Approximation Algorithm for CDMA Downlink Rate Allocation......Page 280
15: Resource Allocation Model for Estimating Non-Uniform Spatial Loads in Cellular Wireless Networks......Page 299
16: Heavy Traffic Analysis of AIMD Models......Page 317
17: Unreliable Components with Fast Repair and Dynamic Network Restoration......Page 340
18: Multiple Service Classes for Rate Adaptive Streams......Page 364
