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Main Authors: Hyatt-Denesik, Dylan, Ameli, Afrouz Jabal, Sanita, Laura
Format: Preprint
Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.08972
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author Hyatt-Denesik, Dylan
Ameli, Afrouz Jabal
Sanita, Laura
author_facet Hyatt-Denesik, Dylan
Ameli, Afrouz Jabal
Sanita, Laura
contents Flexible network design deals with building a network that guarantees some connectivity requirements between its vertices, even when some of its elements (like vertices or edges) fail. In particular, the set of edges (resp. vertices) of a given graph are here partitioned into safe and unsafe. The goal is to identify a minimum size subgraph that is 2-edge-connected (resp. 2-vertex-connected), and stay so whenever any of the unsafe elements gets removed. In this paper, we provide improved approximation algorithms for flexible network design problems, considering both edge-connectivity and vertex-connectivity, as well as connectivity values higher than 2. For the vertex-connectivity variant, in particular, our algorithm is the first with approximation factor strictly better than 2.
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spellingShingle Improved Approximations for Flexible Network Design
Hyatt-Denesik, Dylan
Ameli, Afrouz Jabal
Sanita, Laura
Data Structures and Algorithms
Flexible network design deals with building a network that guarantees some connectivity requirements between its vertices, even when some of its elements (like vertices or edges) fail. In particular, the set of edges (resp. vertices) of a given graph are here partitioned into safe and unsafe. The goal is to identify a minimum size subgraph that is 2-edge-connected (resp. 2-vertex-connected), and stay so whenever any of the unsafe elements gets removed. In this paper, we provide improved approximation algorithms for flexible network design problems, considering both edge-connectivity and vertex-connectivity, as well as connectivity values higher than 2. For the vertex-connectivity variant, in particular, our algorithm is the first with approximation factor strictly better than 2.
title Improved Approximations for Flexible Network Design
topic Data Structures and Algorithms
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.08972