Written by a team of international experts, this highly topical and comprehensive volume examines these important issues, including network topology design, network management, load balancing, fault location, fraud identification, call admission control and radio frequency assignment. Presenting state-of-the-art solutions to various present and future optimisation problems, it applies advanced techniques from the fields of artificial intelligence and evolutionary computing, and includes contributions on space, satellite, telephone and computer communication.

Partial Contents:

• Networking Planning and Design: Tabu Search in Network Topology
• Optimisation
• A Hybrid Genetic Algorithm/Heuristic Approach to Optical Networks
• Genetic Optimisation of Passive Optical Networks
• Hybrid Local Search and Genetic Algorithms for Reliability Optimisation
• Routing and Restoration: Heuristics for Telecommunications Traffic Routing
• Discovering Fault-Tolerant Routing Rules with Genetic Programming
• Evolutionary Techniques in Adaptive Communications Network Routing
• Network Management: Genetic Search for Frequency Assignment in Cellular Radio Networks
• Hybrid Genetic Algorithms for Service Provision in SDH Networks
• Network Analysis, Protocols and Software Engineering Issues in Networks: Genetic Algorithm Based Performance Analysis of Network Protocols Reorda
• Communications Software Validation
• Neural Networks for Management of Adaptable Protocols.