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Evolving System Architectures for Multimedia Network Design

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This paper discusses implementation issues concerning a telecommunications planning system for networks with hypothetical multimedia stochastic traffic. Stochasticity of the traffic and probabilistic statements about service commitment are captured by a chance-constrained stochastic programming formulation of the complex network dimensioning and traffic management problem treated in our previous work. Our approach involves a hierarchy of design objectives associated with the respective network layers. These are met by constituting a set of models – the Integrated Network Design System (INDS) – with common data, “solvers” and a graphical user interface (GUI) operating under the interactive control of the network planner.

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    E.A. Medova

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Medova, E., Scott, J. Evolving System Architectures for Multimedia Network Design. Annals of Operations Research 104, 163–180 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1013199205333

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