Title
Semismooth equation approach to Network Utility Maximization (NUM)
Abstract
Popular approach to solving NUM utilizes dual decomposition and subgradient iterations, which are extremely slow to converge. Recently there has been investigation of barrier methods for the solution of NUM which have been shown to posess second order convergence. However, the question of accelerating dual decomposition based methods is still open. We propose a novel semismooth equation approach to solving the standard dual decomposition formulation of NUM.We show that under fairly mild assumptions that the approach converges locally superlinearly to the solution of the NUM. Globalization of the proposed algorithm using a linesearch is also described. Numerical experiments show that the approach is competitive with a state-of-the-art nonlinear programming solver which solves the NUM without decomposition.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1109/ACC.2013.6580580
ACC
Keywords
Field
DocType
second order convergence,subgradient iterations,network utility maximization,nonlinear programming,dual decomposition based methods,dual decomposition,convergence,num,gradient methods,semismooth equation approach,network theory (graphs),state-of-the-art nonlinear programming solver,vectors,linear systems,symmetric matrices,newton method
Convergence (routing),Mathematical optimization,Network utility maximization,Subgradient method,Computer science,Nonlinear programming,Solver
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
0743-1619
978-1-4799-0177-7
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.35
8
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Lijie Bai1322.46
Arvind U. Raghunathan216320.63