We address progressive network recovery under uncertain knowledge of damages. We formulate the problem as a mixed-integer linear programming (MILP), and show that it is NP-Hard. We propose an iterative stochastic recovery algorithm (ISR) to recover the network in a progressive manner to satisfy the critical services. At each optimization step, we make a decision to repair a part of the network and gather more information iteratively, until critical services are completely restored. Three different algorithms are used to find a feasible set and determine which node to repair, namely, 1) an iterative shortest path algorithm (ISR-SRT), 2) an approximate branch and bound (ISR-BB) and 3) an iterative multi-commodity LP relaxation (ISR-MULT). Further, we have modified the state-of-the-art iterative split and prune (ISP) algorithm to incorporate the uncertain failures. Our results show that ISR-BB and ISR-MULT outperform the state-of-the-art ”progressive ISP” algorithm while we can configure our choice of the trade-off between the execution time, a number of repairs (cost), and the demand loss. We show that our recovery algorithm, on average, can reduce the total number of repairs by a factor of about 3 with respect to ISP, while satisfying all critical demands.
Check our paper in IFIP Networking 2017:
Network Recovery from Massive Failures under Uncertain Knowledge of Damages