This paper presents the main achievements of a project, focused on the design of an integrated system composed of a satellite segment and a MANET to provide telecommunication services in emergency scenarios, in terms of network design, focusing in particular on the development of the interface between the two systems and showing the results of field trials. Copyright # 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

With the increase in the provision of access to Wireless Local Area Networks and the abundance of user devices capable of utilising Wi-Fi, the design of the network infrastructure has introduced some significant problems. Prior to the installation of Access Points it is difficult to predict whether access can be guaranteed at specific locations. Additionally, to increase the level of security, ...

We present a conceptual framework for modeling optical networks and the solutions to its associated problems. The framework is targeted towards a large-scale initiative by us for developing a modeling language that can help with conceptual modeling of typical optical network design problems. While there are pieces of literature available that describe modeling languages for other application ar...

The design and planning of resilient supply chains is a major challenge due to the increasing complexity of these systems that operate in a global market and therefore are more exposed to disruptions. In the present work a design and planning model that integrates demand uncertainty is applied to five supply chain structures that are submitted to different types of disruptions. Disruptions are ...

o On network design under uncertain arc capacities, Alper Atamturk and Avinash Bhardwaj

The paper is based on the authors’ work for the HiTrans Interreg III-project (Nielsen, Lange et al. 2005), recent work on a good practice guide for public transport system design in rural and small town regions for the Norwegian Ministry of Transport and Communications (Nielsen and Lange 2008), earlier literature studies and consultancy work for various public transport bodies in Norway. The id...

A large body of work exists in process industry supply chain optimisation. We describe the state of the art of research in infrastructure design, modelling and analysis and planning and scheduling, together with some industrial examples. We will consider two network design type problems in more detail and then draw some conclusions about the degree to which different classes of problem have bee...

Flexible and dynamic supply chain network design problem has been studied by many researchers during past years. Since integration of short-term and long-term decisions in strategic planning leads to more reliable plans, in this paper a multi-objective model for a sustainable closed-loop supply chain network design problem is proposed. The planning horizon of this model contains multiple strate...

Stochastics affects the optimal design of a network. This paper examines the single-source single-commodity stochastic network design problem. We characterize the optimal designs under demand uncertainty and compare with the deterministic counterparts to outline the basic structural differences. We do this partly as a basis for developing better algorithms than are available today, partly to si...