A Neural-Network Solution to the Concentrator Assignment Problem

Thispaper presents a neural-net solution to a resource allocation problem that arises in providing local access to the backbone of a wide-area communication network.The problem is described in terms of an energy function that can be mapped onto an analog computational network. Simulation results characterizing the performance of the neural computation are also presented. INTRODUCTION This paper presents a neural-network solution to a resource allocation problem that arises in providing access to the backbone of a communication network. 1 Inthe field of operations research, this problem was first known as the warehouse location problem and heuristics for finding feasible, suboptimal solutions have been developed previously.2.