Despite the effectiveness of dynamic routing procedure recently proposed in (Sabour et al., 2017), we still lack a standard formalization of the heuristic and its implications. In this paper, we partially formulate the routing strategy proposed in Sabour et al. (2017) as an optimization problem that minimizes a combination of clustering-like loss and a KL regularization term between the current...

A Mobile Adhoc Network (Manet) is a highly challenging environment due to its dynamic topology, limited processing capability, limited storage, band width constraints, high bit error rate and lack of central control. In this dynamic network, each node is considered as a mobile router. A malicious node can easily disrupt the proper functioning of the routing by refusing to forward routing messag...

MPLS (Multi-Protocol Label Switching) has recently emerged to facilitate the engineering of network traffic. This can be achieved by directing packet flows over paths that satisfy multiple requirements. MPLS has been regarded as an enhancement to traditional IP routing, which has the following problems: (1) all packets with the same IP destination address have to follow the same path through th...

This paper examines the cost-reduction effect of “postponed” routing decisions in a two-echelon supply chain. When a delivery vehicle leaves the warehouse with system replenishment quantities, it sequentially makes routing decisions to choose the next retailer to visit. To measure this effect this paper studies combined vehicle routing and inventoryallocation policies designed to minimize total...

Wireless mesh networks have attracted increasing attention and deployment as a high-performance and low-cost solution to last-mile broadband Internet access. Traffic routing plays a critical role in determining the performance of a wireless mesh network. To investigate the best routing solution, existing work proposes to formulate the mesh network routing problem as an optimization problem. In ...

Mobile Adhoc Networks (MANETs) are infrastructure-less, dynamic network of collections of wireless mobile nodes communicating with each other without any centralized authority. A MANET is a mobile device of interconnections through wireless links, forming a dynamic topology. Routing protocols have a big role in data transmission across a network. Routing protocols, two major classifications are...

Traffic routing is a well established optimization problem in traffic management. We address here dynamic routing problems where the load of roads is taken into account dynamically, aiming at the optimization of required travel times. We investigate ant-based algorithms that can handle dynamic routing problems, but suffer from negative emergent effects like road congestions. We propose an inver...

Channel flow routing provides information on the movement of flood wave as it travels downstream. From the flood forecast viewpoint, it is desirable to have some knowledge about the expected arrival time of peak flow. However, many parameters involved in the flow routing model, in reality, can not be quantified with certainty. In this paper, a probabilistic analysis using the Mellin transform i...

Peer to peer (p2p) file sharing protocol and ad hoc wireless routing protocol shares many intriguing similarities even though they operate on a totally different level of a network. With the popularity of p2p application for resource sharing and the availability of resources has motivated the researchers to examine the potentials of p2p applications in a dynamic environment. With the success of...

In Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks (MANETs), establishing trust relationships between the nodes in a decentralized fashion has been an important research issue for a long time. If the sender nodes accurately identify the legitimate nodes in the network, a robust routing can be provided while mitigating the effects of malicious nodes. Further, there is always a mutual interaction between a sender and its...