Title : 
Integrally indecomposable polytopes and the survivable network design problem
         
        
            Author : 
Eisenschmidt, Elke ; Köppe, Matthias
         
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
We consider the survivable network design problem for fractional flows and integral capacities and demands. While this problem was modelled using so-called metric inequalities in the past, we will present an integer program which is based on the automatic linearization of non-linear constraints. It turns out that the linear relaxation of the latter formulation is actually stronger than the linear relaxations of the previously known models. Our model making use of integrally indecomposable polytopes, we introduce a new way of computing these polytopes via the chamber decomposition of the parameter space.
         
        
            Keywords : 
integer programming; matrix algebra; telecommunication network routing; integer program; integrally indecomposable polytopes; linear relaxation; metric inequalities; non-linear constraints automatic linearization; survivable network design problem; Linear matrix inequalities; Matrix decomposition; Routing; Telecommunication network topology; capacitated network design; integrally indecomposable polytopes; survivability;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Design and Reliable Communication Networks, 2007. DRCN 2007. 6th International Workshop on
         
        
            Conference_Location : 
La Rochelle
         
        
            Print_ISBN : 
978-1-4244-3824-2
         
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/DRCN.2007.4762272