Optimizing the deployment of a multilevel optical FTTH network
Résumé
Due to the emergence of bandwidth-requiring services, telecommunication operators are being compelled to renew their fix access network, most of them favoring the Fiber To The Home (FTTH) technology. This paper focuses on the optimization of FTTH deployment, which is of prime importance due to the economic stakes. The key design issue here is locating splitters and routing fi bers in an existing network infrastructure to which is associated a graph with given capacities on the edges. No assumption is made on the structure of the graph. First we propose a mixed integer formulation for this decision problem. Then, valid inequalities and problem size reduction schemes are presented. Finally efficiency of solving approaches is assessed through extensive numerical tests performed on Orange real-life data