Patent Document ID: 9124496
Application ID: 13444323
Patent Flag: 1

Claim One:
1. A method for producing a set of optimized node placement solutions for plural nodes of a computer network, the method comprising: a) temporarily relocating, in a computer process, movable ones of the nodes in the network; b) for each temporarily relocated movable node, determining in a computer process, a thermal energy of the network resulting from its temporary relocation in the network, the thermal energy being inversely correlated with greediness of the network; c) for each temporarily relocated movable node, determining, in a computer process, a potential energy reduction in the network resulting from its temporary relocation in the network, the potential energy being a function of pair-wise traffic stress; d) for each temporarily relocated movable node, determining, in a computer process, whether to accept or reject its temporary relocation in the network; e) accepting the temporary relocation in a computer process, if an acceptance probability is greater than a randomly generated number, the acceptance probability being a function of the potential energy reduction in the network; and f) repeating steps a) to e) to generate a set of optimized node placement solutions.