Unternehmen der Transportbranche müssen gerade im operativen Tagesgeschäft bei der Tourenplanung und Transportdisposition Planungsprobleme lösen, die ein hohes Maß an Dynamik aufweisen. Speziell die Inputfaktoren der Tourenplanung sind größtenteils dynamisch und stochastisch. Aus Sicht des Autors kann die Qualität von Tourplanungsergebnissen durch die zeitnahe Berücksichtigung unvorhergesehener Ereignisse nachhaltig verbessert werden. Jedoch findet diese zunehmend erfolgskritische Funktionalität in der Literatur bisher nur unzureichend Beachtung, obwohl das Tourenplanungsproblem (Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP)) eines der wichtigsten und am meisten erforschten kombinatorischen Optimierungsprobleme ist. Verfahren für kapazitierte dynamische Tourenplanungsproblemstellungen sind in der Literatur kaum zu finden. Speziell im Bereich der Algorithmen, die eine große Lösungsgeschwindigkeit, eine leichte Verständlichkeit, eine aus praktischer Sicht akzeptable Lösungsgüte aufweisen und die Möglichkeit besitzen, die aktuellen Routenpläne der Fahrzeuge ausgehend von der momentanen geographischen Position real-time zu verändern, besteht Forschungsbedarf. Die Arbeit geht daher der Forschungsfrage nach, wie ein Verfahren für die dynamische Tourenplanung zu konstruieren ist, welches das kapazitierte dynamische Tourenplanungsproblem mit der Möglichkeit der Änderung des aktuellen Fahrzeugzuges unter Einhaltung sehr kurzer Rechenzeiten bei größtmöglicher Verständlichkeit löst. Durch die genannten Kriterien wird im Rahmen der Arbeit der Schwerpunkt auf die Modifikation von klassischen heuristischen Verfahren für die Lösung von dynamischen Tourenplanungsproblemen gelegt. Die Arbeit befasst sich sowohl mit dem Gesamtkonzept zur Disposition dynamischer Kunden als auch mit konkreten Modellen und Verfahren zur Lösung von Subproblemen innerhalb des Gesamtkonzeptes. Ferner erfolgt die Präsentation von umfangreichen Simulationsergebnissen, die auf der durchgeführten softwaretechnischen Implementierung der entwickelten Verfahren basieren. Die gute Anwendbarkeit der neuen Verfahren in der Praxis wird gezeigt. Zwecks der möglichst ganzheitlichen Betrachtung des Themengebietes erfolgt in der Arbeit zum einen sowohl die Erörterung von quantitativen als auch von qualitativen Aspekten der dynamischen Tourenplanung und zum anderen die Analyse von Schnittstellen zwischen der dynamischen Tourenplanung und eng damit verbundenen Bereichen wie Flottenmanagement oder Auftragseingang bzw. -disposition. Hierzu werden die Informationsflüsse zwischen den beteiligten Elementen im Rahmen des dynamischen Dispositionsprozesses aufgezeigt, telematische Komponenten zur Unterstützung des Informationsmanagements und der Informationsübertragung vorgestellt sowie die benötigten Inputdaten erläutert. Den Schwerpunkt der Arbeit stellt jedoch die Entwicklung von neuen quantitativen Methoden zur dynamischen Tourenplanung dar.

Recently, many natural disasters have occurred (e.g., the 2011 tsunami in Japan). In response to those disasters, Wireless Sensor Networks have been proposed to improve their detection level. This new technology has two main challenges which are routing and topology control where their multi-dimensional dilations need to be improved/balanced. Related to those metrics, the packet delivery factor also needs to be improved/guaranteed. This thesis presents the design of new routing protocols, referred to as: 1) the 3-D Sensing Sphere close to the Line:Smallest Angle to the Line (SSL:SAL) protocol, 2) the 3-D Randomized Sensing Spheres (RSS) protocol, and 3) the SSL:SAL version 1 and version 2 (i.e., SSL:SALv1 and SSL:SALv2, respectively). Through simulations, these protocols are shown to balance/improve the multi-dimensional dilations metrics which also include new bandwidth metrics. The balance/improvement is achieved over some existing position-based protocols. In addition, packet delivery is guaranteed mathematically for new and existing protocols. Furthermore, some experimental evidences are gathered regarding the delivery rate impact on the multi-dimensional metrics. The thesis also proposes a new set of 2-D and 3-D graphs, so called: 1) the Derived Circle version 1 (DCv1) graphs and 2) the Derived Sphere (DSv1) graphs. The new approaches improve the multi-dimensional dilations over some existing graphs. In addition, connectivity, rotability, fault tolerance properties are achieved. Lastly, the thesis develops a framework that combines routing protocols and graphs in fully covered regions. Some experimental evidences demonstrate the improvement of the multi-dimensional metrics and the packet delivery rate for the routing protocols based on the DSv1. This is compared to the routing protocols based on an existing graph. Furthermore, based on either the proposed or existing graphs, some important findings are demonstrated for routing in terms of multi-dimensional metrics and packet delivery rate. Among those findings, the proposed protocol and an exiting protocol have higher delivery rates compared to another existing protocol. Furthermore, the proposed graph improves the multi-dimensional metrics for the proposed and existing protocols over another existing protocol for low communication ranges.

Sensor devices and the emergent networks that they enable are capable of transmitting information between data sources and a permanent data sink. Since these devices have low-power and intermittent connectivity, latency of the data may be tolerated in an effort to save energy for certain classes of data. The BUBBLE routing algorithm developed by Hui et al. in 2008 provides consistent routing by employing a model which computes individual nodes popularity from sets of nodes and then uses these popularity values for forwarding decisions. This thesis considers enhancements to BUBBLE based on the hypothesis that nodes do form groups and certain centrality values of nodes within these groups can be used to improve routing decisions further. Built on this insight, there are two algorithms proposed in this thesis. First is the Community-Based- Forwarding (CBF), which uses pairwise group interactions and pairwise node-to-group interactions as a measure of popularity for routing messages. By having a different measure of popularity than BUBBLE, as an additional factor in determining message forwarding, CBF is a more conservative routing scheme than BUBBLE. Thus, it provides consistently superior message transmission and delivery performance at an acceptable delay cost in resource constrained environments. To overcome this drawback, the concept of unique interaction pattern within groups of nodes is introduced in CBF and it is further renewed into an enhanced algorithm known as Hybrid-Community-Based- Forwarding (HCBF). Utilizing this factor will channel messages along the entire path with consideration for higher probability of contact with the destination group and the destination node. Overall, the major contribution of this thesis is to design and evaluate an enhanced social based routing algorithm for resource-constrained Pocket Switched Networks (PSNs), which will optimize energy consumption related to data transfer. It will do so by explicitly considering features of communities in order to reduce packet loss while maintaining high delivery ratio and reduced delay.

Hop count, i.e., the number of wireless hops a packet has to go through to reach the destination, is a fundamental metric in multi-hop wireless ad-hoc networks. Network performance, such as throughput, end-to-end delay, energy consumption, and so on, depends critically on hop count. Previous work on modeling hop count is limited in making unrealistic simplifying assumptions either at the physical or network, or both layers of the communication protocol stack. A key contribution of this thesis is to present an analytical model to derive the probability distribution of hop count under realistic assumptions at both physical and network layers. Specifically, the model considers a log-normal shadowing radio propagation capable of accommodating the random signal fading observed in most wireless communication environments, and the widely used geographic routing at the network layer. Validation of the model is achieved by a comprehensive set of simulation experiments including a trace driven simulation of a real-word vehicular ad-hoc network. The model reveals that the presence of randomness in radio propagation reduces the required number of hops to reach a given destination significantly. To demonstrate the utility of the proposed hop count model, the thesis proposes three new applications which address some of the key challenges in multi-hop wireless networks. The first application derives the per-node packet forwarding load in multi-hop wireless sensor networks and reveals that the nodes in the vicinity of the base station has a significantly less forwarding load than previously thought under simplifying radio propagation and routing assumptions. The second application demonstrates that using hop count as a measure of distance traveled by a data packet, geocasting can be achieved in multi-hop wireless networks in situations when some of the network nodes do not have access to reliable location information. Finally, the proposed hop count model is used to evaluate the performance of the third application which demonstrates that the overhead of geographic routing can be reduced significantly by embracing a position update philosophy which adapts to the mobility and communication patterns of the underlying ad-hoc network.

Hop count, i.e., the number of wireless hops a packet has to go through to reach the destination, is a fundamental metric in multi-hop wireless ad-hoc networks. Network performance, such as throughput, end-to-end delay, energy consumption, and so on, depends critically on hop count. Previous work on modeling hop count is limited in making unrealistic simplifying assumptions either at the physical or network, or both layers of the communication protocol stack. A key contribution of this thesis is to present an analytical model to derive the probability distribution of hop count under realistic assumptions at both physical and network layers. Specifically, the model considers a log-normal shadowing radio propagation capable of accommodating the random signal fading observed in most wireless communication environments, and the widely used geographic routing at the network layer. Validation of the model is achieved by a comprehensive set of simulation experiments including a trace driven simulation of a real-word vehicular ad-hoc network. The model reveals that the presence of randomness in radio propagation reduces the required number of hops to reach a given destination significantly. To demonstrate the utility of the proposed hop count model, the thesis proposes three new applications which address some of the key challenges in multi-hop wireless networks. The first application derives the per-node packet forwarding load in multi-hop wireless sensor networks and reveals that the nodes in the vicinity of the base station has a significantly less forwarding load than previously thought under simplifying radio propagation and routing assumptions. The second application demonstrates that using hop count as a measure of distance traveled by a data packet, geocasting can be achieved in multi-hop wireless networks in situations when some of the network nodes do not have access to reliable location information. Finally, the proposed hop count model is used to evaluate the performance of the third application which demonstrates that the overhead of geographic routing can be reduced significantly by embracing a position update philosophy which adapts to the mobility and communication patterns of the underlying ad-hoc network.

Le paradigme d’Internet des objets (IoT) envisage d’élargir Internet actuelle avec un grand nombre de dispositifs intelligents. Réseaux de Capteurs sans Fil (WSN) déploie les dispositifs fonctionnant sur des approvisionnements énergétiques maigres et mesurant de phénomènes environnementaux (comme la température, la radioactivité, ou CO 2). Des applications populaires de WSN comprennent la surveillance, le télémétrie, et la prévention des catastrophes naturelles. Des défis majeurs de WSN sont comment permettre à l’efficacité énergétique, surmonter les déficiences de support sans fil, et d’opérer dans à la manière auto-organisée. L’intégration de WSN dans IoT se posera sur des standards ouvertes efforçant d’offrir évolutivité et de fiabilité dans une variété de scénarios et conditions de fonctionnement. Néanmoins, l’état actuel des standards a les problèmes d’interopérabilité et peuvent bénéficier de certaines améliorations. Les contributions de la thèse sont :Nous avons effectué une étude approfondie des filtres de Bloom et de leur utilisation dans le stockage de caractéristiques de nœud dans l’adresse IP. Différentes techniques de compression et de variantes de filtres nous ont permisde développer un système efficace qui comble l’écart entre le routage de caractéristiques et l’approche classique compatible avec les réseaux IPv6.Nous proposons Featurecast, un protocole de routage / service de nommage pourWSN. Il permet d’interroger les réseaux de capteurs en utilisant un ensemble de caractéristiques tout raccord en entête de paquet IPv6. Nous intégrons notre protocole dans RPL et introduisons une nouvelle mesure, qui augmentent l’efficacité de routage. Nous vérifions sa performance contre dans des simulations approfondies et des test sur des capteurs réels dans un bancd’essai à grande échelle. Simulations approfondies démontrent les avantagesde notre protocole en termes d’utilisation de la mémoire, le surcharge de con-trôle, le taux de livraison de paquets et la consommation d’énergie.Nous introduisons WEAVE - un protocole de routage pour les réseaux avec géolo-calisation. Notre solution n’utilise pas de message de contrôle et apprend sesvoies seulement en observant le trafic. Plusieurs mécanismes sont introduitspour garder un en-tête de taille fixe, contourner à la fois les petits commeles grands obstacles et fournir une communication efficace entre les nœuds.Nous avons effectué des simulations à grande échelle impliquant plus de 19000noeuds et des expériences avec des capteurs réels sur banc d’essai IoT-lab.Nos résultats montrent que nous atteignons bien meilleures performances enparticulier dans les réseaux grands et dynamiques sans introduire de surcharge / Internet of Things (IoT) paradigm envisages to expand the current Internet witha huge number of intelligent communicating devices. Wireless Sensor Networks(WSN) deploy the devices running on meagre energy supplies and measuring environmental phenomena (like temperature, radioactivity, or CO 2 ). WSN popularapplications include monitoring, telemetry, and natural disaster prevention. Major WSN challenges are energy efficiency, overcome impairments of wireless medium, and operate in the self-organisation. The WSN integrating IoT will rely on a set of the open standards striving to offer scalability and reliability in a variety of the operating scenarios and conditions. Nevertheless, the current state of the standards have interoperability issues and can benefit from further improvements. The contributions of the thesis work are:We performed an extensive study of Bloom Filters and their use in storing nodetext-based elements in IP address. Different techniques of compression andvariants of filters allowed us to develop an efficient system closing the gapbetween feature-routing and classic approach compatible with IPv6 networks.We propose Featurecast, a routing protocol/naming service for WSN. It allowsto query sensor networks using a set of characteristics while fitting in anIPv6 packet header. We integrate our protocol in RPL and introduce a newmetric, which increase the routing efficiency. We check its performance inboth extensive simulations and experimentations on real sensors in a large-scale Senslab testbed. Large-scale simulations demonstrate the advantagesof our protocol in terms of memory usage, control overhead, packet deliveryrate and energy consumption.We introduce WEAVE - a routing protocol for networks with geolocation. Our so-lution does not use any control message and learn its paths only by observingthe traffic. Several mechanisms are introduce to keep a fixed-size header andbypass both small as well as large obstacles and provide an efficient communication between nodes. We performed simulations on large scale involvingmore than 19000 nodes and real-sensor experimentations on IoT-lab testbed. Our results show that we achieve much better performance especially in large and dynamic networks without introducing any control overhead.

abstract: This thesis presents a successful application of operations research techniques in nonprofit distribution system to improve the distribution efficiency and increase customer service quality. It focuses on truck routing problems faced by St. Mary’s Food Bank Distribution Center. This problem is modeled as a capacitated vehicle routing problem to improve the distribution efficiency and is extended to capacitated vehicle routing problem with time windows to increase customer service quality. Several heuristics are applied to solve these vehicle routing problems and tested in well-known benchmark problems. Algorithms are tested by comparing the results with the plan currently used by St. Mary’s Food Bank Distribution Center. The results suggest heuristics are quite completive: average 17% less trucks and 28.52% less travel time are used in heuristics’ solution. / Dissertation/Thesis / Masters Thesis Industrial Engineering 2015

abstract: Mobile healthy food retailers are a novel alleviation technique to address disparities in access to urban produce stores in food desert communities. Such retailers, which tend to exclusively stock produce items, have become significantly more popular in the past decade, but many are unable to achieve economic sustainability. Therefore, when local and federal grants and scholarships are no longer available for a mobile food retailer, they must stop operating which poses serious health risks to consumers who rely on their services. To address these issues, a framework was established in this dissertation to aid mobile food retailers with reaching economic sustainability by addressing two key operational decisions. The first decision was the stocked product mix of the mobile retailer. In this problem, it was assumed that mobile retailers want to balance the health, consumer cost, and retailer profitability of their product mix. The second investigated decision was the scheduling and routing plan of the mobile retailer. In this problem, it was assumed that mobile retailers operate similarly to traditional distribution vehicles with the exception that their customers are willing to travel between service locations so long as they are in close proximity. For each of these problems, multiple formulations were developed which address many of the nuances for most existing mobile food retailers. For each problem, a combination of exact and heuristic solution procedures were developed with many utilizing software independent methodologies as it was assumed that mobile retailers would not have access to advanced computational software. Extensive computational tests were performed on these algorithm with the findings demonstrating the advantages of the developed procedures over other algorithms and commercial software. The applicability of these techniques to mobile food retailers was demonstrated through a case study on a local Phoenix, AZ mobile retailer. Both the product mix and routing of the retailer were evaluated using the developed tools under a variety of conditions and assumptions. The results from this study clearly demonstrate that improved decision making can result in improved profits and longitudinal sustainability for the Phoenix mobile food retailer and similar entities. / Dissertation/Thesis / Doctoral Dissertation Industrial Engineering 2016

Roteamento por colônia de formigas é um método de roteamento em redes de comunicação, e diversos algoritmos foram propostos nos últimos anos baseado nessa estrutura. Todos esses algoritmos produzem excelentes resultados, provando a sua eficiência e eficácia. Este trabalho apresenta os resultados de desempenho dos principais algoritmos encontrados na literatura, e com base nesses resultados, propõe um novo algoritmo com desempenho equivalente e com uma complexidade computacional menor. O trabalho é focalizado em redes tipo datagrama com topologia irregular, descrevendo suas propriedades e características e realizando uma análise e comparação de seus desempenhos em um ambiente de simulação. / Ant Colony Routing is an adaptive method for routing in communication networks, and several algorithms have been proposed in the last years based on this framework. All these algorithms show excellent results, proving their efficiency and efficacy. This work presents the results of the performance of the main algorithms found in the literature, and based on these results, it proposes a novel algorithm that has a similar performance but with a lower computational complexity. The work is focused in datagram like networks with irregular topology, describing its characteristics and properties. The performances in an simulation environment are analysed and compared.

Avec le développement des applications temps-réel sur Internet, telles que la télévision, la voix sur IP et les jeux en ligne, les fournisseurs d'accès à Internet doivent faire face à des contraintes de plus en plus fortes quant aux performances de leurs services. Cependant, après chaque changement topologique, les protocoles de routage à état des liens, utilisés dans les réseaux de cœur de ces opérateurs, entrent dans une période de convergence durant laquelle des boucles de routage peuvent apparaître. Ce phénomène dégrade les performances du réseau (latence, congestions, pertes de paquets) et peut durer plusieurs secondes. Dans le cadre de cette thèse, nous proposons de nouvelles solutions permettant de prévenir ces perturbations dans le cas de reconfigurations sur un lien ou un routeur. Notre approche a pour particularité de ne reposer que sur les mécanismes de base des protocoles de routage à état des liens, et d’être ainsi déployable de manière incrémentale dans n’importe quel réseau. Intuitivement, il s’agit de contrôler implicitement l’ordre de mise à jour des routeurs, à travers une modification progressive du poids d’un sous-ensemble de liens. Par exemple, l’augmentation du poids d’un lien aura pour effet de forcer les routeurs les plus éloignés de ce composant à se mettre à jour avant les routeurs plus proches. En adaptant finement l’amplitude de tels changements, il est alors possible de répartir la mise à jour de routeurs potentiellement impliqués dans une boucle sur plusieurs étapes. Cette opération peut ensuite être répétée jusqu’à ce que le composant ne soit plus utilisé pour acheminer des données dans le réseau, permettant un retrait sans impact sur le routage. / The use of real time media or mission critical applications over IP networks is making strong pressure on service providers to operate disruption free networks. However, after any topological change, link-state Interior Gateway Protocols (IGPs), such as IS-IS or OSPF, enter a convergence phase during which transient forwarding loops may occur. Such loops increase the network latency and cause packet losses for several seconds. In this thesis, we propose and evaluate innovative solutions to prevent these perturbations in case a planned modification on a link or a router. Our approach only relies on core functionalities of link-state routing protocols, thus being incrementally deployable in any network. Intuitively, it consists in implicitly controlling the routers update order through successive IGP weight reconfigurations on a subset of links. For example, progressively increasing the weight of a link forces farthest routers to update their routes first, before closest ones. Hence, finely tuning such changes may allow to spread the update of routers potentially implied in a loop across multiple steps. This operation can be repeated until the component to be removed is no longer used to forward traffic in the network, thus allowing its removal with no impact on the routing decisions.