2005 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel
Finding Two Disjoint Paths in a Network with Normalized α + -MIN-SUM Objective Function
verfasst von : Bing Yang, S. Q. Zheng, Enyue Lu
Erschienen in: Algorithms and Computation
Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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Given a number
α
with 0 <
α
< 1, a network
G
= (
V
,
E
) and two nodes
s
and
t
in
G
, we consider the problem of finding two disjoint paths
P
1
and
P
2
from
s
to
t
such that
length
(
P
1) ≤
length
(
P
2
) and
length
(
P
1
) +
α
·
length
(
P
2
) is minimized. The paths may be node-disjoint or edge-disjoint, and the network may be directed or undirected. This problem has applications in reliable communication. We prove an approximation ratio
${1+\alpha} \over {2\alpha}$
for all four versions of this problem, and also show that this ratio cannot be improved for the two directed versions unless P = NP. We also present Integer Linear Programming formulations for all four versions of this problem. For a special case of this problem, we give a polynomial-time algorithm for finding optimal solutions.