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In this paper, we consider the problem of scheduling real-time traffic in wireless networks under a conflict-graph interference model and single-hop traffic. The objective is to guarantee that at least a certain fraction of packets of each…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-01-16 Christos Tsanikidis , Javad Ghaderi

Finding shortest paths in a given network (e.g., a computer network or a road network) is a well-studied task with many applications. We consider this task under the presence of an adversary, who can manipulate the network by perturbing its…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-07-08 Benjamin A. Miller , Zohair Shafi , Wheeler Ruml , Yevgeniy Vorobeychik , Tina Eliassi-Rad , Scott Alfeld

Shortest path network interdiction is a combinatorial optimization problem on an activity network arising in a number of important security-related applications. It is classically formulated as a bilevel maximin problem representing an…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2010-09-06 Alexander Gutfraind , Aric A. Hagberg , David Izraelevitz , Feng Pan

When the underlying physical network layer in optimal network flow problems is a large graph, the associated optimization problem has a large set of decision variables. In this paper, we discuss how the cycle basis from graph theory can be…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-06-06 Reza Asadi , Solmaz S. Kia

Maximum Flow Network Interdiction Problem (MFNIP) is known to be strongly NP-hard problem. We solve a simple form of MFNIP in polynomial time. We review the reduction of MFNIP from the clique problem. We propose a polynomial time solution…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-02-11 Pawan Tamta , Bhagwati Prasad Pande , H. S Dhami

We study the problem of determining the worst optimal value and characterizing the corresponding worst-case scenarios in minimum cost network flow problems with interval uncertainty in arc capacities. In this setting, each capacity can take…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-03 Miroslav Rada , Milan Hladík , Elif Radová Garajová , Francesco Carrabs , Raffaele Cerulli , Ciriaco D'Ambrosio

We consider the capacity problem for wireless networks. Networks are modeled as random unit-disk graphs, and the capacity problem is formulated as one of finding the maximum value of a multicommodity flow. In this paper, we develop a proof…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Christina Peraki , Sergio D. Servetto

Real world networks are often subject to severe uncertainties which need to be addressed by any reliable prescriptive model. In the context of the maximum flow problem subject to arc failure, robust models have gained particular attention.…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2017-05-24 Fabian Mies , Britta Peis , Andreas Wierz

Following [21, 23], the present work investigates a new relative entropy-regularized algorithm for solving the optimal transport on a graph problem within the randomized shortest paths formalism. More precisely, a unit flow is injected into…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Sylvain Courtain , Guillaume Guex , Ilkka Kivimaki , Marco Saerens

The amount of transmitted data in computer networks is expected to grow considerably in the future, putting more and more pressure on the network infrastructures. In order to guarantee a good service, it then becomes fundamental to use the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-05-14 Stefano D'Aronco , Pascal Frossard

We consider the problem of designing a network of minimum cost while satisfying a prescribed survivability criterion. The survivability criterion requires that a feasible flow must still exists (i.e. all demands can be satisfied without…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-09-09 Richard Chen , Amy Cohn , Ali Pinar

We study an incremental network design problem, where in each time period of the planning horizon an arc can be added to the network and a maximum flow problem is solved, and where the objective is to maximize the cumulative flow over the…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2014-12-12 Thomas Kalinowski , Dmytro Matsypura , Martin W. P. Savelsbergh

Generative Flow Networks (GFlowNets) are recently proposed models for learning stochastic policies that generate compositional objects by sequences of actions with the probability proportional to a given reward function. The central problem…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-03 Anh Do , Duy Dinh , Tan Nguyen , Khuong Nguyen , Stanley Osher , Nhat Ho

We study the problem of interdicting a directed graph by deleting nodes with the goal of minimizing the local edge connectivity of the remaining graph from a given source to a sink. We show hardness of obtaining strictly unicriterion…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-11-27 Hassene Aissi , Da Qi Chen , R. Ravi

We study the robust maximum flow problem and the robust maximum flow over time problem where a given number of arcs $\Gamma$ may fail or may be delayed. Two prominent models have been introduced for these problems: either one assigns flow…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-02-23 Christian Biefel , Martina Kuchlbauer , Frauke Liers , Lisa Waldmüller

We consider optimal attacks or immunization schemes on different models of random graphs. We derive bounds for the minimum number of nodes needed to be removed from a network such that all remaining components are fragments of negligible…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-12-10 Nicole Balashov , Reuven Cohen , Avieli Haber , Michael Krivelevich , Simi Haber

A novel method to identify salient computational paths within randomly wired neural networks before training is proposed. The computational graph is pruned based on a node mass probability function defined by local graph measures and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-09 Samuel Glass , Simeon Spasov , Pietro Liò

Throughput is a main performance objective in communication networks. This paper considers a fundamental maximum throughput routing problem -- the all-or-nothing multicommodity flow (ANF) problem -- in arbitrary directed graphs and in the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-07-27 Anya Chaturvedi , Chandra Chekuri , Mengxue Liu , Andréa W. Richa , Mattias Rost , Stefan Schmid , Jamison Weber

We consider a routing problem which plays an important role in several applications, primarily in communication network planning and VLSI layout design. The original underlying graph algorithmic task is called Disjoint Paths problem. In…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-09-19 Rupei Xu , András Faragó

Interdiction problems ask about the worst-case impact of a limited change to an underlying optimization problem. They are a natural way to measure the robustness of a system, or to identify its weakest spots. Interdiction problems have been…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-11-10 Stephen R. Chestnut , Rico Zenklusen