Dimensioning of adaptively routed networks

The authors present an algorithm for the multihour dimensioning of telephone networks operating with residual capacity adaptive routing. The method is based on dimensioning techniques for networks operating with nonhierarchical alternate routing and relies on a conservative approximation for traffic evaluation. It is a decomposition method involving a set of fixed-point equations which are solved iteratively until the Kuhn-Tucker conditions are met. The authors investigate the convergence of the method and find that some of the variables of the model are almost stationary after only a few iterations. This leads to some simplifications that make it suitable for large networks with minor modifications. They also investigate the optimality of adaptive routing by comparing it with the optimal routing coefficients and verify the operation of this routing in a network dimensioned for adaptive technique. A question of interest is how well an adaptive algorithm can adapt to dimensioning errors and how well it compares with the optimal routing in these situations