Modeling Flow Allocation Problem in MPLS Network Protected by p-Cycles

This paper deals with the problem of network structure optimization using p- cycles and certain network flow criteria. p-Cycles has been proposed as the efficient tool for providing network survivability. Formulation of the p-cycle problem in the context of the network flow is original and has not been considered so far in the literature. Beside brief foundations of p-cycle concept, we provide the mathematical model of the optimization problem.