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Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-05-27 Jinkun Zhang , Yuezhou Liu , Edmund Yeh

We study problems related to connecting multi-interface networks of wireless devices. These problems are modeled using graphs, where vertices represent the devices and edges represent potential communication links. Each vertex can activate…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Michał Szyfelbein , Camille Richer

We present improved approximation algorithms for some problems in the related areas of Capacitated Network Design and Flexible Graph Connectivity. In the Cap-$k$-ECSS problem, we are given a graph $G=(V,E)$ whose edges have non-negative…

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Network applications, such as multimedia streaming and video conferencing, impose growing requirements over Quality of Service (QoS), including bandwidth, delay, jitter, etc. Meanwhile, networks are expected to be load-balanced,…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2015-04-22 Longkun Guo , Kewen Liao , Hong Shen , Peng Li

In minimum power network design problems we are given an undirected graph $G=(V,E)$ with edge costs $\{c_e:e \in E\}$. The goal is to find an edge set $F\subseteq E$ that satisfies a prescribed property of minimum power $p_c(F)=\sum_{v \in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-03-13 Zeev Nutov

We study the problem of routing on disjoint paths in bounded treewidth graphs with both edge and node capacities. The input consists of a capacitated graph $G$ and a collection of $k$ source-destination pairs $\mathcal{M} = \{(s_1, t_1),…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-12-08 Alina Ene , Matthias Mnich , Marcin Pilipczuk , Andrej Risteski

We develop a novel algorithm to construct a congestion-approximator with polylogarithmic quality on a capacitated, undirected graph in nearly-linear time. Our approach is the first *bottom-up* hierarchical construction, in contrast to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Jason Li , Satish Rao , Di Wang

We present several results in the CONGEST model on round complexity for Replacement Paths (RPaths), Minimum Weight Cycle (MWC), and All Nodes Shortest Cycles (ANSC). We study these fundamental problems in both directed and undirected…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-05-22 Vignesh Manoharan , Vijaya Ramachandran

A single-commodity congestion approximator for a graph is a compact data structure that approximately predicts the edge congestion required to route any set of single-commodity flow demands in a network. A hierarchical congestion…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Monika Henzinger , Robin Münk , Harald Räcke

In the maximum independent set of convex polygons problem, we are given a set of $n$ convex polygons in the plane with the objective of selecting a maximum cardinality subset of non-overlapping polygons. Here we study a special case of the…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Fabrizio Grandoni , Edin Husić , Mathieu Mari , Antoine Tinguely

In this paper, we study the weighted stochastic matching problem. Let $G=(V, E)$ be a given edge-weighted graph and let its realization $\mathcal{G}$ be a random subgraph of $G$ that includes each edge $e\in E$ independently with a known…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-11-16 Mahsa Derakhshan , Mohammad Saneian

Path cover is a well-known intractable problem that finds a minimum number of vertex disjoint paths in a given graph to cover all the vertices. We show that a variant, where the objective function is not the number of paths but the number…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-03-09 Yinhui Cai , Guangting Chen , Yong Chen , Randy Goebel , Guohui Lin , Longcheng Liu , An Zhang

We introduce and study the complexity of Path Packing. Given a graph $G$ and a list of paths, the task is to embed the paths edge-disjoint in $G$. This generalizes the well known Hamiltonian-Path problem. Since Hamiltonian Path is…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-10-02 Jan Dreier , Janosch Fuchs , Tim A. Hartmann , Philipp Kuinke , Peter Rossmanith , Bjoern Tauer , Hung-Lung Wang

As massive graphs become more prevalent, there is a rapidly growing need for scalable algorithms that solve classical graph problems, such as maximum matching and minimum vertex cover, on large datasets. For massive inputs, several…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-12-31 Sepehr Assadi , MohammadHossein Bateni , Aaron Bernstein , Vahab Mirrokni , Cliff Stein

The \emph{maximal $k$-edge-connected subgraphs} problem is a classical graph clustering problem studied since the 70's. Surprisingly, no non-trivial technique for this problem in weighted graphs is known: a very straightforward…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Chaitanya Nalam , Thatchaphol Saranurak

In the restricted shortest paths problem, we are given a graph $G$ whose edges are assigned two non-negative weights: lengths and delays, a source $s$, and a delay threshold $D$. The goal is to find, for each target $t$, the length of the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Vikrant Ashvinkumar , Aaron Bernstein , Adam Karczmarz

Our work concerns algorithms for an unweighted variant of Maximum Flow. In the All-Pairs Connectivity (APC) problem, we are given a graph $G$ on $n$ vertices and $m$ edges, and are tasked with computing the maximum number of edge-disjoint…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-05-04 Shyan Akmal , Ce Jin

Computing shortest paths is one of the central problems in the theory of distributed computing. For the last few years, substantial progress has been made on the approximate single source shortest paths problem, culminating in an algorithm…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-04-13 Mohsen Ghaffari , Jason Li

A multiflow in a planar graph is uncrossed if its support paths do not cross. Recently such flows have played a role in approximation algorithms for maximum disjoint paths in "fully-planar" instances, where the combined supply-demand graph…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Chandra Chekuri , Guyslain Naves , Joseph Poremba , F. Bruce Shepherd

We prove the existence of an oblivious routing scheme that is $\mathrm{poly}(\log n)$-competitive in terms of $(congestion + dilation)$, thus resolving a well-known question in oblivious routing. Concretely, consider an undirected network…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-10-24 Mohsen Ghaffari , Bernhard Haeupler , Goran Zuzic