Heuristics for Synthesizing Robust Networks with a Diameter Constraint

Abstract EN

Robustness of a network in the presence of node or link failures plays an important role in the design of the network.

A key factor that quantifies this robustness is the algebraic connectivity of the network.

In this paper, the authors address the problem of finding a network that maximizes the algebraic connectivity of the network while ensuring that the length of the shortest path joining any two nodes in the network is within a given bound.

This paper presents k-opt and tabu search heuristics for finding feasible solutions for this network synthesis problem.

Computational results are also presented to corroborate the performance of the proposed algorithms.