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Combining Capacity and Length: Finding Connectivity Bottleneck in a Layered Network


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Computer networks are often multi-layered. For simplicity, let us focus on two-layered networks with logical layer and physical layer. Such a network can be modeled as a ...Show More

Abstract:

Computer networks are often multi-layered. For simplicity, let us focus on two-layered networks with logical layer and physical layer. Such a network can be modeled as a labeled graph G = (V, E) with a label set L = \{\ell _{1}, \ell _{2}, {\dots }, \ell _{q} \} , in which each edge (denotes logical connection) e \in E has a label (denotes physical link) \ell (e) from L. The key issue is that different edges may have the same label. In the weighted minimum Label s-t Cut problem, we are given a labeled graph G=(V,E) with label set L, where each label \ell has a nonnegative weight w_{\ell } , a source s \in V and a sink t \in V . The problem asks to find a minimum weight label subset L' (called a label s-t cut) such that the removal of all edges with labels in L' disconnects s and t. Label s-t cut depicts the connectivity bottleneck of a layered network. It is a natural generalization of the edge connectivity of a graph. In this paper, we provide an approximation algorithm for the weighted Label s-t Cut problem with ratio O(n^{2/3}) , where n is the number of vertices. This is the first approximation algorithm for the problem whose ratio is given in terms of n. The key point of the algorithm is a mechanism to interpret label weight on an edge as both its length (as in the Shortest s-t Path problem) and capacity (as in the Min s-t Cut problem). Experiments on random graphs show that the algorithm has also good practical performance.
Published in: IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking ( Volume: 32, Issue: 6, December 2024)
Page(s): 5430 - 5439
Date of Publication: 01 October 2024

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