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Resource Type: Contest Problem
Primary Level: Undergraduate

The Communications Network Problem

Author: COMAP


Background:

In your company, information is shared among departments on a daily basis. This information includes the previous day’s sales statistics and cur- rent production guidance. It is important to get this information out as quickly as possible.

Suppose that a communications network is to be used to transfer blocks of data (files) from one computer to another. As an example, consider the graph model.

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MCM Problem
Commentary: Yes (2) | Student Papers: Yes (1)

Mathematics Topics:

Math Modeling

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