Colouring the interference digraph of a set of requests in a bidirected tree

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Hauptverfasser: Boulier, Hugo, Coudert, David, Havet, Frédéric, Pirot, François
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author Boulier, Hugo
Coudert, David
Havet, Frédéric
Pirot, François
author_facet Boulier, Hugo
Coudert, David
Havet, Frédéric
Pirot, François
contents In this paper, we investigate the impact of the broadcast effect arising in filterless optical networks on the computational complexity of the wavelength assignment problem. We model conflicts using an appropriate interference digraph, whose proper colourings correspond to feasible wavelength assignments. Minimizing the number of required wavelengths therefore amounts to determining the chromatic number of this interference digraph. Within this framework, we first present a polynomial-time 2-approximation algorithm for minimizing the number of wavelengths. We then show that the problem is fixed-parameter tractable when parameterized by the number $k$ of available wavelengths. We also derive polynomial-time algorithms for computing the independence and clique numbers of this interference digraph.
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spellingShingle Colouring the interference digraph of a set of requests in a bidirected tree
Boulier, Hugo
Coudert, David
Havet, Frédéric
Pirot, François
Discrete Mathematics
05C15, 94C15, 68R1
In this paper, we investigate the impact of the broadcast effect arising in filterless optical networks on the computational complexity of the wavelength assignment problem. We model conflicts using an appropriate interference digraph, whose proper colourings correspond to feasible wavelength assignments. Minimizing the number of required wavelengths therefore amounts to determining the chromatic number of this interference digraph. Within this framework, we first present a polynomial-time 2-approximation algorithm for minimizing the number of wavelengths. We then show that the problem is fixed-parameter tractable when parameterized by the number $k$ of available wavelengths. We also derive polynomial-time algorithms for computing the independence and clique numbers of this interference digraph.
title Colouring the interference digraph of a set of requests in a bidirected tree
topic Discrete Mathematics
05C15, 94C15, 68R1
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.02400