TY - GEN
T1 - Oblivious buy-at-bulk in planar graphs
AU - Srinivasagopalan, Srivathsan
AU - Busch, Costas
AU - Iyengar, S. Sitharama
N1 - Copyright:
Copyright 2011 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - In the oblivious buy-at-bulk network design problem in a graph, the task is to compute a fixed set of paths for every pair of source-destination in the graph, such that any set of demands can be routed along these paths. The demands could be aggregated at intermediate edges where the fusion-cost is specified by a canonical (non-negative concave) function f. We give a novel algorithm for planar graphs which is oblivious with respect to the demands, and is also oblivious with respect to the fusion function f. The algorithm is deterministic and computes the fixed set of paths in polynomial time, and guarantees a O(logn) approximation ratio for any set of demands and any canonical fusion function f, where n is the number of nodes. The algorithm is asymptotically optimal, since it is known that this problem cannot be approximated with better than Ω(logn) ratio. To our knowledge, this is the first tight analysis for planar graphs, and improves the approximation ratio by a factor of logn with respect to previously known results.
AB - In the oblivious buy-at-bulk network design problem in a graph, the task is to compute a fixed set of paths for every pair of source-destination in the graph, such that any set of demands can be routed along these paths. The demands could be aggregated at intermediate edges where the fusion-cost is specified by a canonical (non-negative concave) function f. We give a novel algorithm for planar graphs which is oblivious with respect to the demands, and is also oblivious with respect to the fusion function f. The algorithm is deterministic and computes the fixed set of paths in polynomial time, and guarantees a O(logn) approximation ratio for any set of demands and any canonical fusion function f, where n is the number of nodes. The algorithm is asymptotically optimal, since it is known that this problem cannot be approximated with better than Ω(logn) ratio. To our knowledge, this is the first tight analysis for planar graphs, and improves the approximation ratio by a factor of logn with respect to previously known results.
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-19094-0_6
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-19094-0_6
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:79952273061
SN - 9783642190933
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 33
EP - 44
BT - WALCOM
T2 - 5th Annual Workshop on Algorithms and Computation, WALCOM 2011
Y2 - 18 February 2011 through 20 February 2011
ER -