Problems in using computers for planning telecommunications networks

Abstract

Telecommunications networks possess special properties which make it difficult to use standard network analysis techniques: for example, Kirchhoff's Laws do not apply. Some of the problems arising are discussed with reference to the planning of the network of cables and radio links interconnecting the 360 trunk telephone exchanges in the UK. The paper was presented at a one-day symposium on Networks, organized by the Computer-Aided Design specialist group of the British Computer Society and held on the 18th March 1974.