A Tabu Search algorithm for difference triangle sets and Golomb rulers

  • Authors:
  • Philippe Galinier;Brigitte Jaumard

  • Affiliations:
  • Département de génie informatique, Ecole Polytechnique de Montréal, C.P. 6079, succursale Centre-ville, Montréal, (Québec), Canada H3C 3A7;Département d'Informatique et de recherche opérationnelle, Université de Montréal, Pavillon André-Aisenstadt, 2920 chemin de la Tour, Montréal (Québec), Canada H ...

  • Venue:
  • Computers and Operations Research
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

We propose a Tabu Search heuristic to design optimal Golomb rulers and Difference Triangle Sets. These two highly combinatorial problems have a number of applications in information transmission in telecommunications, and in particular in the construction of convolutional self-orthogonal codes. Our tabu algorithm obtains remarkable results and finds many Difference Triangle Sets with smaller spans than those obtained so far.