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A Note on Optical Network with Nonsplitting Nodes

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We study the problem of computing the minimum total weight multicast route in an optical network with both nonsplitting and splitting nodes, and present a simple approximation with performance ratio 3, which is better than existing one in the literature.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon Tang, Hong Kong

    Hongwei Du & Xiaohua Jia

  2. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 55455, USA

    Feng Wang, My Thai & Yingshu Li

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Du, H., Jia, X., Wang, F. et al. A Note on Optical Network with Nonsplitting Nodes. J Comb Optim 10, 199–202 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10878-005-2273-y

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