1. Günter Rote and Andreas Vogel:

A heuristic for decomposing traffic matrices in TDMA satellite communication

ZOR — Methods and Models of Operations Research 38 (1993), 281–307, (Zbl 785.90069). doi:10.1007/BF01416610

2. Günter Rote and Andreas Vogel:

A heuristic for decomposing traffic matrices in TDMA satellite communication

Bericht 73-1990, Technische Universität Graz, 28 pages; (slightly extended version of 1.)

3. Günter Rote:

Eine Heuristik für ein Matrizenzerlegungsproblem, das in der Telekommunikation via Satelliten auftritt (Kurzfassung)

(Short and preliminary version of 1.)
ZAMM · Zeitschrift für angewandte Mathematik und Mechanik 69 (1989), T29–T31. doi:10.1002/zamm.19890690402

Abstract

With the time-division multiple access (TDMA) technique in satellite communication the problem arises to decompose a given n×n traffic matrix into a weighted sum of a small number of permutation matrices such that the sum of the weights becomes minimal. There are polynomial algorithms when the number of permutation matrices in a decomposition is allowed to be as large as n2. When the number of matrices is restricted to n, the problem is NP-hard. In this paper we propose a heuristic based on a scaling technique which for each number of allowed matrices in the range from n to n2 allows to give a performance guarantee with respect to the total weight of the solution. As a subroutine we use new heuristics methods for decomposing a matrix of small integers into as few matrices as possible without exceeding the lower bound on the total weight. Computational results indicate that the method might also be practical.

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