Survivable Network Design: The State of the Art

  • Authors:
  • Samit Soni;Rakesh Gupta;Hasan Pirkul

  • Affiliations:
  • School of Management University of Texas at Dallas, PO Box 830688 JO 51, Richardson, TX 75083-0688 hpirkul@utdallas.edu;Owen Graduate School of Management at Vanderbilt University 401 21st Ave. South Nashville, TN 37203;Owen Graduate School of Management at Vanderbilt University 401 21st Ave. South Nashville, TN 37203

  • Venue:
  • Information Systems Frontiers
  • Year:
  • 1999

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Abstract

In the past few years the telecommunications industry has undergone significant changes. We are rapidly evolving to a state where audio/visual and data traffic is all provided on the same networks. Telecommunication companies are investing billions of dollars in the design and maintenance of telecommunication networks to provide the users with the better quality of service that they have begun to expect. Due to their high capacity, fiber optic cables have become the medium of choice in the deployment of such new networks worldwide. Such high capacities encourage telecommunication providers to create networks that are substantially more sparse than previous copper based networks. Unfortunately, with sparsity comes vulnerability to failure. Given the dependence on the varied services offered by the modern networks, the magnitudes of the investments involved and the costs of disasters it is only logical that researchers look at problems in survivable network design as an interesting research question. There have been a number of papers that have addressed these and other related issues. In this paper we try to classify the area of survivable network design and provide a classification scheme for the same.