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    <completedDate>2002-12-19</completedDate>
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    <title language="eng">Load Balancing in Signaling Transfer Points</title>
    <abstract language="eng">Signaling is crucial to the operation of modern telecommunication networks. A breakdown in the signaling infrastructure typically causes customer service failures, incurs revenue losses, and hampers the company image. Therefore, the signaling network has to be highest reliability and survivability. This in particular holds for the routers in such a network, called \textit{signaling transfer points\/} (STPs). The robustness of an STP can be improved by equally distributing the load over the internal processing units. Several constraints have to be taken into account. The load of the links connected to a processing unit changes over time introducing an imbalance of the load. In this paper, we show how integer linear programming can be applied to reduce the imbalance within an STP, while keeping the number of changes small. Two alternative models are presented. Computational experiments validate the integer programming approach in practice. The GSM network operator E-Plus saves substantial amounts of time and money by employing the proposed approach.</abstract>
    <identifier type="serial">02-50</identifier>
    <identifier type="opus3-id">718</identifier>
    <identifier type="urn">urn:nbn:de:0297-zib-7179</identifier>
    <author>Andreas Eisenblätter</author>
    <author>Arie M.C.A. Koster</author>
    <author>Randolf Wallbaum</author>
    <author>Roland Wessäly</author>
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      <title>ZIB-Report</title>
      <number>02-50</number>
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      <value>Signaling network</value>
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      <value>integer programming</value>
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    <collection role="ddc" number="000">Informatik, Informationswissenschaft, allgemeine Werke</collection>
    <collection role="msc" number="90B18">Communication networks [See also 68M10, 94A05]</collection>
    <collection role="msc" number="90C10">Integer programming</collection>
    <collection role="msc" number="90C90">Applications of mathematical programming</collection>
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