TY - JOUR T1 - A GRASP Heuristic for Solving an Extended Capacitated Concentrator Location Problem JF - International Journal of Information Technology and Decision Making Y1 - 2003 A1 - Han ,Bernard T. A1 - Raja,V.T. KW - BIS AB - Local Access Networks (LACNs) are often considered the "last mile" over the Internet provided that they are connected to some existing Wide Area Network backbone. In this paper, a revised LACN-WAN interconnection model is presented as an extension to the conventional Capacitated Concentrator Location Problem (CCLP). An efficient heuristic is also developed to seek near-optimal deployment of telecommunication devices (e.g. links, concentrators, etc.) while minimizing the total connection costs for the network interconnection. Our solution algorithm could serve as a decision-making tool in solving problems with a real world size (i.e. 120 nodes and 30 concentrators). CY - World Scientific Publishing Company VL - 2 CP - 4 U2 - a U4 - 649197568 ID - 649197568 ER -