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An unsplittable multiflow routes the demand of each commodity along a single path from its source to its sink node. As our main result, we prove that in series-parallel digraphs, any given multiflow can be expressed as a convex combination…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-22 Mohammed Majthoub Almoghrabi , Martin Skutella , Philipp Warode

We introduce the Unsplittable Transshipment Problem in directed graphs with multiple sources and sinks. An unsplittable transshipment routes given supplies and demands using at most one path for each source-sink pair. Although they are a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Srinwanti Debgupta , Sarah Morell , Martin Skutella

A famous conjecture of Goemans on single-source unsplittable flows states that one can turn any fractional flow into an unsplittable one of no higher cost, while increasing the load on any arc by at most the maximum demand. Despite…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Chaitanya Swamy , Vera Traub , Laura Vargas Koch , Rico Zenklusen

We consider single-sink network flow problems. An instance consists of a capacitated graph (directed or undirected), a sink node $t$ and a set of demands that we want to send to the sink. Here demand $i$ is located at a node $s_i$ and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-05-18 F. Bruce Shepherd , Adrian Vetta

We consider the problem of multicommodity flows in outerplanar graphs. Okamura and Seymour showed that the cut-condition is sufficient for routing demands in outerplanar graphs. We consider the unsplittable version of the problem and prove…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-05-21 David Alemán-Espinosa , Nikhil Kumar

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 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

In the Time-Windows Unsplittable Flow on a Path problem (twUFP) we are given a resource whose available amount changes over a given time interval (modeled as the edge-capacities of a given path $G$) and a collection of tasks. Each task is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Alexander Armbruster , Fabrizio Grandoni , Edin Husić , Antoine Tinguely , Andreas Wiese

We present faster algorithms for approximate maximum flow in undirected graphs with good separator structures, such as bounded genus, minor free, and geometric graphs. Given such a graph with $n$ vertices, $m$ edges along with a recursive…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-10-19 Gary Miller , Richard Peng

We consider the problem of multicommodity flows in planar graphs. Seymour showed that if the union of supply and demand graphs is planar, then the cut condition is sufficient for routing demands. Okamura-Seymour showed that if all demands…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-07-03 Nikhil Kumar

We combine the well known Shortest Paths (SP) problem and the Bottleneck Paths (BP) problem to introduce a new problem called the Shortest Paths for All Flows (SP-AF) problem that has relevance in real life applications. We first solve the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-11-21 Tong-Wook Shinn , Tadao Takaoka

In the unsplittable flow problem on a path, we are given a capacitated path $P$ and $n$ tasks, each task having a demand, a profit, and start and end vertices. The goal is to compute a maximum profit set of tasks, such that for each edge…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Paul Bonsma , Jens Schulz , Andreas Wiese

Network flow interdiction analysis studies by how much the value of a maximum flow in a network can be diminished by removing components of the network constrained to some budget. Although this problem is strongly NP-complete on general…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2008-01-14 Rico Zenklusen

In the decremental single-source shortest paths problem, the goal is to maintain distances from a fixed source $s$ to every vertex $v$ in an $m$-edge graph undergoing edge deletions. In this paper, we conclude a long line of research on…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-01-20 Aaron Bernstein , Maximilian Probst Gutenberg , Thatchaphol Saranurak

In the Unsplittable Flow on a Path problem UFP, we are given a path graph with edge capacities and a collection of tasks. Each task is characterized by a demand, a profit, and a subpath. Our goal is to select a maximum profit subset of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Ilan Doron-Arad , Fabrizio Grandoni , Ariel Kulik

We study the unsplittable flow on a path problem (UFP) where we are given a path with non-negative edge capacities and tasks, which are characterized by a subpath, a demand, and a profit. The goal is to find the most profitable subset of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-11-13 Aris Anagnostopoulos , Fabrizio Grandoni , Stefano Leonardi , Andreas Wiese

In this work, we consider the dynamic unsplittable flow problem. This variation of the unsplittable flow problem has received little attention so far. The unsplittable flow problem is an NP-hard extension of the multi-commodity flow problem…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-29 François Lamothe , Emmanuel Rachelson , Alain Haït , Cédric Baudoin , Jean-Baptiste Dupé

We study the single pair capacitated network design problem and the budget constrained max flow problem on undirected series-parallel graphs. These problems were well studied on directed series-parallel graphs, but little is known in the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-01-22 Ishan Bansal , Ryan Mao , Avhan Mishra

The overwhelming majority of survivable (fault-tolerant) network design models assume a uniform fault model. Such a model assumes that every subset of the network resources (edges or vertices) of a given cardinality $k$ may fail. While this…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-09-14 David Adjiashvili , Felix Hommelsheim , Moritz Mühlenthaler , Oliver Schaudt

We study the well-established problem of finding an optimal routing of unsplittable flows in a graph. While by now there is an extensive body of work targeting the problem on graph classes such as paths and trees, we aim at using the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Robert Ganian , Mathis Rocton , Daniel Unterberger
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