O Problema de ordenação de rodadas e problemas de otimização associados

Abstract

This thesis is composed of three well-delineated parts. In the first part, we introduce the round sorting problem (RSP), which models the minimization of the usage of buffer for the temporary storage of packets to be forwarded in TDMA communications of wireless mesh networks. We present a complete foundation for the definition of the RSP, and show that the problem is NP-hard for two theoretical models of radio interference known in the literature. A mixed integer programming formulation is also presented for a purely combinatorial and applicationindependent generalization of the RSP, the SMSP problem. In the second part of the work, we deal with problems about queries on insertions into sequences of numbers. Our main result in this part of the thesis is to show how, after a preprocessing step which runs in linear time on a sequence A of arbitrary real numbers, it is possible to compute in constant time the greatest sum of a (circular or not) contiguous subsequence of the sequence which results from the insertion of a given real number x into a given position p of A. In the third part of the thesis, we use the query algorithms from the second part to obtain an efficient implementation of the GRASP metaheuristic applied to the SMSP problem. An experimental analysis of this implementation is described, in which the values of the solutions returned by the metaheuristic are compared with those of the solutions obtained through the mixed integer formulation, in the case of small instances, and with the available lower bound, in the case of larger instances.