Description:
Explaining how to apply mathematical programming to network design and control, this book fills the gap between mathematical programming theory and its implementation in communication networks. The book's comprehensive coverage provides an understanding of the fundamentals of mathematical programming for communication networks all the way through to more advanced concepts. Using the GNU Linear Programming Kit (GLPK) package, which is designed for solving linear programming and mixed integer programming problems, it explains typical problems and provides solutions for communication networks. The text includes practical algorithms and sufficient programs to encourage GLPK usage.
Review Quotes:
"This textbook is intended to provide the fundamentals of linear programming as applied to communication networks and a practical guide on how to solve communication-related problems using linear programming solver. For this purpose, the GLPK package (a software package to solve linear programming problems, developed by Andrew O. Makhorin, freely available), which is intended for solving linear programming problems, integer linear programming problems and mixed integer linear programming problems, is adopted in this textbook. The book introduces and explains typical practical problems for communication networks and their solutions by providing sufficient programs of GLPK. The book also provides practical algorithms for these problems by solving helpful examples with demonstrations."
--Tiit Riismaa (Tallinn), Zentralblatt MATH 1322 1