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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 31, 2000
Filed:
Jan. 14, 1998
Yasuhiro Miyao, Tokyo, JP;
NEC Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A network design method allowing to build, at a low cost, a network which operates properly even upon failure occurs or load variation, satisfying a capacity required by a demand pair. The method solves an integer programming problem containing an objective function that minimizes the cost of link capacity. The problem receives information on a network topology, failure patterns indicating where a failure occurred, a demand capacity of a current path of a demand pair in each time zone and direction, a demand capacity of a standby path to be used when a failure occurs on the current path, and combination candidates of the current path and the standby path. The problem contains indicator variables indicating whether to use a combination of a current path and a standby path connecting the ends of each demand pair in each time zone and variables indicating the capacity to be assigned to each link. The method solves the problem under a constraint that the total of the indicator values for the request pair must be 1 and under a constraint that either the current path or the standby path is used for each time zone, each state, and each request pair and that the total of the demand capacities of all the paths going through a link ought not to exceed the capacity of the link.