A branch-and-cut algorithm for the minimum-adjacency vertex coloring problem

In this work we study a particular way of dealing with interference in combinatorial optimization models representing wireless communication networks. In a typical wireless network, co-channel interference occurs whenever two overlapping antennas use the same frequency channel, and a less critical i...

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Autores principales: Delle Donne, D., Marenco, J.
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Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12110/paper_15725286_v8_n4_p540_DelleDonne
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Sumario:In this work we study a particular way of dealing with interference in combinatorial optimization models representing wireless communication networks. In a typical wireless network, co-channel interference occurs whenever two overlapping antennas use the same frequency channel, and a less critical interference is generated whenever two overlapping antennas use adjacent channels. This motivates the formulation of the minimum-adjacency vertex coloring problem which, given an interference graph G representing the potential interference between the antennas and a set of prespecified colors/channels, asks for a vertex coloring of G minimizing the number of edges receiving adjacent colors. We propose an integer programming model for this problem and present three families of facet-inducing valid inequalities. Based on these results, we implement a branch-and-cut algorithm for this problem, and we provide promising computational results. © 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.