Such problem arises, for instance, in telecommunication network design: in fact, in hierarchical networks the traffic arising at client nodes often have to be routed through different kinds of facility nodes, which provide different services.
Since facility nodes can also be used only as Steiner nodes, in which case w i =1 and z i =0, inequalities (31) must hold.
The Steiner tree-star problem is the following: Given a graph with disjoint sets of possible facility nodes and customers, we want to find a minimum cost tree such that each customer is assigned to a facility and that all open facilities are connected by a Steiner tree.
Nonetheless, along with simple statistical analysis and mathematical operations facilities, nodes to perform cross validation and bagging are also available.
With respect to Table 6, nodes 1, 4, 9, 11, 12, and 13 are not covered, because they do not receive enough signals from the located facilities; nodes 7, 14, and 15 are covered cooperatively.
Fixed cost of providing a mode changing facility at node v, (v in V_{text{two}}).
Characteristics of each architecture is explained as follows: Client WMN provides peer-to-peer networking facility between the client nodes.
The transportation cost in this case is the total cost for a round trip from the facility to each node and back.
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