SOLVING THE RING ARC-LOADING PROBLEM USING A HYBRID SCATTER SEARCH ALGORITHM

Anabela Moreira Bernardino, Eugénia Moreira Bernardino, Juan Manuel Sánchez-Pérez, Juan Antonio Gómez-Pulido, Miguel Angel Vega-Rodríguez

2010

Abstract

Resilient Packet Ring (RPR) is a standard that uses Ethernet switching and a dual counter-rotating ring topology to provide SONET-like network resiliency and optimised bandwidth usage, while it delivers multipoint Ethernet/IP services. An important optimisation problem arising in this context is the Weighted Ring Arc Loading Problem (WRALP). That is the design of a direct path for each request in a communication network, in such a way that high load on the arcs will be avoided, where an arc is an edge endowed with a direction. The load of an arc is defined as the total weight of those requests routed through the arc in its direction. WRALP ask for a routing scheme such that the maximum load on the arcs will be minimum. In this paper we study the loading problem without demand splitting and for solving it we propose a Hybrid Scatter Search (HSS) algorithm. Coupled with the Scatter Search algorithm we use a Tabu Search algorithm to locate the global minimum. We show that HSS is able to achieve feasible solutions to WRALP instances, improving the results obtained by previous approaches.

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Moreira Bernardino A., Moreira Bernardino E., Manuel Sánchez-Pérez J., Antonio Gómez-Pulido J. and Angel Vega-Rodríguez M. (2010). SOLVING THE RING ARC-LOADING PROBLEM USING A HYBRID SCATTER SEARCH ALGORITHM . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Evolutionary Computation - Volume 1: ICEC, (IJCCI 2010) ISBN 978-989-8425-31-7, pages 60-69. DOI: 10.5220/0003076200600069


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@conference{icec10,
author={Anabela Moreira Bernardino and Eugénia Moreira Bernardino and Juan Manuel Sánchez-Pérez and Juan Antonio Gómez-Pulido and Miguel Angel Vega-Rodríguez},
title={SOLVING THE RING ARC-LOADING PROBLEM USING A HYBRID SCATTER SEARCH ALGORITHM},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Evolutionary Computation - Volume 1: ICEC, (IJCCI 2010)},
year={2010},
pages={60-69},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003076200600069},
isbn={978-989-8425-31-7},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Evolutionary Computation - Volume 1: ICEC, (IJCCI 2010)
TI - SOLVING THE RING ARC-LOADING PROBLEM USING A HYBRID SCATTER SEARCH ALGORITHM
SN - 978-989-8425-31-7
AU - Moreira Bernardino A.
AU - Moreira Bernardino E.
AU - Manuel Sánchez-Pérez J.
AU - Antonio Gómez-Pulido J.
AU - Angel Vega-Rodríguez M.
PY - 2010
SP - 60
EP - 69
DO - 10.5220/0003076200600069