TY - GEN
T1 - The all-or-nothing flow problem in directed graphs with symmetric demand pairs
AU - Chekuri, Chandra
AU - Ene, Alina
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - We study the approximability of the All-or-Nothing multicommodity flow problem in directed graphs with symmetric demand pairs (SymANF). The input consists of a directed graph G = (V, E) and a collection of (unordered) pairs of nodes M = {s1t1,s2t2, S ktk}. A subset M′ of the pairs is routable if there is a feasible multicommodity flow in G such that, for each pair S iti ε M′, the amount of flow from s i to t i is at least one and the amount of flow from t i to s i is at least one. The goal is to find a maximum cardinality subset of the given pairs that can be routed. Our main result is a poly-logarithmic approximation with constant congestion for SymANF. We obtain this result by extending the well-linked decomposition framework of [6] to the directed graph setting with symmetric demand pairs. We point out the importance of studying routing problems in this setting and the relevance of our result to future work.
AB - We study the approximability of the All-or-Nothing multicommodity flow problem in directed graphs with symmetric demand pairs (SymANF). The input consists of a directed graph G = (V, E) and a collection of (unordered) pairs of nodes M = {s1t1,s2t2, S ktk}. A subset M′ of the pairs is routable if there is a feasible multicommodity flow in G such that, for each pair S iti ε M′, the amount of flow from s i to t i is at least one and the amount of flow from t i to s i is at least one. The goal is to find a maximum cardinality subset of the given pairs that can be routed. Our main result is a poly-logarithmic approximation with constant congestion for SymANF. We obtain this result by extending the well-linked decomposition framework of [6] to the directed graph setting with symmetric demand pairs. We point out the importance of studying routing problems in this setting and the relevance of our result to future work.
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-07557-0_19
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-07557-0_19
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84958522647
SN - 9783319075563
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 222
EP - 233
BT - Integer Programming and Combinatorial Optimization - 17th International Conference, IPCO 2014, Proceedings
PB - Springer
T2 - 17th International Conference on Integer Programming and Combinatorial Optimization, IPCO 2014
Y2 - 23 June 2014 through 25 June 2014
ER -