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In this paper we present a combinatorial optimisation view on the routing problem for connectionless packet networks by using the metaphor of a landscape. We examine the main properties of the routing landscapes as we define them and how…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2007-05-23 T. Michalareas , L. Sacks

It is a critical issue to compute the shortest paths between nodes in networks. Exact algorithms for shortest paths are usually inapplicable for large scale networks due to the high computational complexity. In this paper, we propose a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-06-29 Shi-nan Gong , Duan-bing Chen , Hui Gao , Guan-nan Wang , Liang-wei Wang

Online routing in a planar embedded graph is central to a number of fields and has been studied extensively in the literature. For most planar graphs no $O(1)$-competitive online routing algorithm exists. A notable exception is the Delaunay…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2022-01-11 Vikrant Ashvinkumar , Joachim Gudmundsson , Christos Levcopoulos , Bengt J. Nilsson , André van Renssen

Given a graph, the shortest-path problem requires finding a sequence of edges with minimum cumulative length that connects a source vertex to a target vertex. We consider a variant of this classical problem in which the position of each…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2024-05-10 Tobia Marcucci , Jack Umenberger , Pablo A. Parrilo , Russ Tedrake

Empirical complex systems must differentially respond to external perturbations and, at the same time, internally distribute information to coordinate their components. While networked backbones help with the latter, they limit the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-04-18 Arsham Ghavasieh , Manlio De Domenico

The complexity of urban street networks is well accepted to reside in the information space where roads map to nodes and junctions to links between nodes. Assuming that information networks preserve their amount of surprisal on average…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-12-05 Jerome Benoit , Saif Eddin Jabari

We study a scenario for route planning in road networks, where the objective to be optimized may change between every shortest path query. Since this invalidates many of the known speedup techniques for road networks that are based on…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-09-11 Julian Dibbelt , Ben Strasser , Dorothea Wagner

We consider the problem of optimizing the interconnection graphs of complex networks to promote synchronization. When traditional optimization methods are inapplicable, due to uncertain or unknown node dynamics, we propose a data-driven…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-29 Marco Coraggio , Mario di Bernardo

We study the information traffic in Barab\'asi-Albert scale free networks wherein each node has finite queue length to store the packets. It is found that in the case of shortest path routing strategy the networks undergo a first order…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-09-15 Zhi-Xi Wu , Wen-Xu Wang , Kai-Hau Yeung

Modern communication networks are increasingly equipped with in-network computational capabilities and services. Routing in such networks is significantly more complicated than the traditional routing. A legitimate route for a flow not only…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Lifan Mei , Jinrui Gou , Jingrui Yang , Yujin Cai , Yong Liu

We consider the problem of computing shortest paths in hybrid networks, in which nodes can make use of different communication modes. For example, mobile phones may use ad-hoc connections via Bluetooth or Wi-Fi in addition to the cellular…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-11-24 Michael Feldmann , Kristian Hinnenthal , Christian Scheideler

This paper is concerned with a constrained optimization problem over a directed graph (digraph) of nodes, in which the cost function is a sum of local objectives, and each node only knows its local objective and constraints. To…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-01-24 Pei Xie , Keyou You , Shiji Song , Cheng Wu

Motivated by the fact that intelligent traffic control systems have become inevitable demand to cope with the risk of traffic congestion in urban areas, this paper develops a distributed control strategy for urban traffic networks. Since…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-06 Viet Hoang Pham , Kazunori Sakurama , Shaoshuai Mou , Hyo-Sung Ahn

We present analytical results for the distribution of shortest path lengths between random pairs of nodes in configuration model networks. The results, which are based on recursion equations, are shown to be in good agreement with numerical…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2016-06-16 Mor Nitzan , Eytan Katzav , Reimer Kühn , Ofer Biham

We consider a distributed learning setup where a sparse signal is estimated over a network. Our main interest is to save communication resource for information exchange over the network and reduce processing time. Each node of the network…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-04-03 Ahmed Zaki , Saikat Chatterjee , Partha P. Mitra , Lars K. Rasmussen

The search for the optimal pair of active and protection paths in a network with Shared Risk Link Groups (SRLG) is a challenging but high-value problem in the industry that is inevitable in ensuring reliable connections on the modern…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-08-05 P. A. Mosharev , Choon-Meng Lee , Xu Shu , Xiaoshan Zhang , Man-Hong Yung

In this paper, we study the problem of constructing a network by observing ordered connectivity constraints, which we define herein. These ordered constraints are made to capture realistic properties of real-world problems that are not…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-02-24 Yi Huang , Mano Vikash Janardhanan , Lev Reyzin

The availability of massive vehicle trajectory data enables the modeling of road-network constrained movement as travel-cost distributions rather than just single-valued costs, thereby capturing the inherent uncertainty of movement and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-07-10 Chenjuan Guo , Ronghui Xu , Bin Yang , Ye Yuan , Tung Kieu , Yan Zhao , Christian S. Jensen

In pursuit of higher energy efficiency in computer networks, one subfield of green traffic engineering aims at reducing the size of a network during times of low traffic, while still guaranteeing the ability to route all occurring demands.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Markus Chimani , Max Ilsen

We propose new mathematical optimization models for generating sparse dynamical graphs, or networks, that can achieve synchronization. The synchronization phenomenon is studied using the Kuramoto model, defined in terms of the adjacency…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-06-23 Regina S. Burachik , Alexander C. Kalloniatis , C. Yalçın Kaya