Journal article
Cost-Effective Path Planning for Submarine Cable Network Extension
Q Wang, J Guo, Z Wang, E Tahchi, X Wang, B Moran, M Zukerman
IEEE Access | IEEE | Published : 2019
Open access
Abstract
We describe a cost-effective approach to path planning for submarine cables connecting a given site to an existing cable network on the Earth's surface. The objective is to minimize the overall life-cycle cost of submarine cables by considering multiple design considerations. With the surface terrain represented by a triangulated manifold, we formulate the problem as one of the variational optimization framed in terms of an Eikonal equation and solved by leveraging the fast marching method. The results based on real-world three-dimensional data are presented to illustrate the performance of this approach in the submarine cable network extension.
Grants
Awarded by City University of Hong Kong
Funding Acknowledgements
This work was supported in part by the Research Grants Council of Hong Kong, China, under Project CityU8/CRF/13G, in part by the City University of Hong Kong, under Project 7004623 and Project 9667193, in part by the Natural Science Basic Research Plan in Shaanxi Province of China under Project 2018JM6025, in part by the Shenzhen Municipal Science and Technology Innovation Committee under Project JCYJ20180306171144091, and in part by the Dongguan University of Technology under Project KCYKYQD2017007.