We introduce several network design and planning problems that arise in the context of commercial satellite networks. At the heart of most of these problems we deal with a traffic routing problem over an extended planning horizon. In satellite networks route changes are associated with significant monetary penalties that are usually in the form of discounts (up to 40%) offered by the satellite provider to the customer that is affected. The notion of these rerouting penalties requires the network planners to consider management problems over multiple time periods and introduces novel challenges that have not been considered previously in the literature…
Author: Gamvros, Ioannis
Source: University of Maryland
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