The design of network utilities which share resources or infrastructural elements, and which
aim for cleaner transmission processes, involves many decision-making issues. These …

Reliability of facilities and vehicles in a supply chain and the social responsibility are of high
importance in designing a supply chain network in many industries; fewer studies have …

Optical network transports are traditionally designed with ring protection and/or dedicated
(1+ 1) protection as they provide the best reliability for the networks. However, with there is a …

Survivabilityâ•’Oriented Quality of Service in Optical Networks Page 1 Chapter 8
Survivability-Oriented Quality of Service in Optical Networks 8.1. Introduction The …

With the emergence of IoT applications, 5G, and edge computing, network resource
allocation has shifted toward the edge, bringing services closer to the end users. These …

While the design and the provisioning of survivable optical networks have already been
studied for a long time, networks across the world are still experiencing a phenomenal …

Process integration, which started its development in the early 1970s, is an emerging branch
of study for conserving various resources. Process integration studies the interdependencies …

In this paper a reliable and economic resource allocation strategy under cost constraints is
developed for an unreliable multi-source multi-sink flow network. A multi-source multi-sink …

The economic development and social well‐being of modern societies are highly dependent
on networked critical infrastructures to satisfy the necessary demand. In the case that the …

The design of the optical transport network (OTN) must meet the challenges of providing a
high capacity, highly dependable and reliable network and the flexibility in bandwidth …