Applied research & development at the Carinthia Tech Institute

University of Applied Sciences

NETQUEST

 

The Project

Considering the spatial topology of urban areas, the real world simulation of cost- optimal cable laying routes represents a task of enormous complexity. Within the project NETQUEST geoinformation engineers, mathematicians, system engineers and particularly practitioners from renowned network carriers collaborate in order to develop a computational platform which allows the significant simulation of investment costs as well as the minimization of construction costs for cable laying projects.

 

We focus to the development of the thin client system TCS-NETQUEST which supplies network carriers with cost optimized network layouts and the according basic economic data. According enquiries can be defined by the user via a simple web front-end. The computational process, based on all relevant geoinformation data of the according domain, will be automatically performed on the computational cluster located at the Carinthia Tech Institute.

Schematic view of  TCS-NETQUEST.

TCS-NETQUEST supports the following basic tasks under consideration of all relevant technical constraints:

· Web-bases simulation of cost optimized cable routes for multiple network augmentation scenarios.

· Multitasking the minimization of network augmentation costs and maximizing the achieved return on investment.

· Multitasking the minimization of network augmentation costs and keeping the condition of a prescribed lower limit for the return on investment.

NETQUEST is a FHplus project. The FHplus program is founded by the Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG).