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Routing Symmetric Demands in Directed Minor-Free Graphs with Constant Congestion

Data Structures and Algorithms 2017-11-07 v1

Abstract

The problem of routing in graphs using node-disjoint paths has received a lot of attention and a polylogarithmic approximation algorithm with constant congestion is known for undirected graphs [Chuzhoy and Li 2016] and [Chekuri and Ene 2013]. However, the problem is hard to approximate within polynomial factors on directed graphs, for any constant congestion [Chuzhoy, Kim and Li 2016]. Recently, [Chekuri, Ene and Pilipczuk 2016] have obtained a polylogarithmic approximation with constant congestion on directed planar graphs, for the special case of symmetric demands. We extend their result by obtaining a polylogarithmic approximation with constant congestion on arbitrary directed minor-free graphs, for the case of symmetric demands.

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@article{arxiv.1711.01692,
  title  = {Routing Symmetric Demands in Directed Minor-Free Graphs with Constant Congestion},
  author = {Timothy Carpenter and Ario Salmasi and Anastasios Sidiropoulos},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1711.01692},
  year   = {2017}
}