Telecommunications - central to our daily lives - continues to change dramatically. These changes are the result of technological advances, deregulation, the proliferation of broadband service offers, and the spectacular popularity of the Internet and wireless services. In such adynamic technological and economic environment, competition is increasing among service providers and among equipment manufacturers. Consequently, optimization of the planning process is becoming essential. Although telecommunications network planning has been tackled by the Operations Research community for some time, many fundamental problems remain challenging. Through its fourteen chapters, this book covers some new and some still challenging older problems which arise in the planning of telecommunication networks. Telecommunications Network Planning will benefit both telecommunications practitioners looking for efficient methods to solve their problems and operations researchers interested in telecommunications. The book examines network design and dimensioning problems; it explores Operation Research issues related to a new standard Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM); it overviews problems that arise when designing survivable SDH/SONET Networks; it considers some broadband network problems; and it concludes with three chapters on wireless and mobile networks. Leading area researchers have contributed their recent research on the telecommunications and network topics treated in the volume.

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Preface. Introduction; B. Sansò. 1. Multicommodity Capacitated Network Design; B. Gendron, et al. 2. Using Hop-Indexed Models for Constrained Spanning and Steiner Tree Models; L. Gouveia. 3. Hierarchical Two Level Location Problems; P. Chardaire. 4. Multi-Hour Dimensioning in Non-Hierarchical Telecommunications Networks; G.G. Polak, B.T. Smith. 5. Issues in ATM Network Planning: An Operations Research Perspective; B. Sansò. 6. The Common Structure of Packet- and Circuit-Switched Network Synthesis; A. Girard. 7. Loss Models for Broadband Networks with Non-Linear Constraint Functions; W. Liang, K.W. Ross. 8. Reliability Issues in Telecommunications Network Planning; C.J. Colbourn. 9. Design and Dimensioning of Survivable SDH/Sonet Networks; P. Soriano, et al. 10. Comparative Methods and Issues in Design of Mesh-Resotrable STM and ATM Networks; W.D. Grover, et al. 11. Fault Tolerant Virtual Path Layout: Optimization Models; M.O. Ball, A. Vakhutinsky. 12. Survey of Research Issues in LEO/MEO Based Global Mobile Communication Systems; B. Gavish. 13. Mathematical Models and Exact Methods for Channel Assignment in Cellular Networks; B. Jaumard, et al. 14. Tile Covers, Closed Tours and the Radio Spectrum; J. Janssen, K. Kilakos.