Approximating the two-source minimum routing cost spanning trees Bang Ye Wu Shu-Te University
Problem Definition Input: an undirected graph with nonnegative edge lengths, two vertices as sources and all vertices as destinations Output: a spanning tree such that the total distance from sources to destinations (including the sources) is minimum, that is, we want to minimize
Result The NP-hardness of the problem. A PTAS: for any >0, the scheme finds a (1+ )-approximation solution with time complexity
Related problems OCT: ij d T (i,j), arbitrary nonnegative requirements. MRCT: requirement=1 PROCT: ij =r i *r j, r i is nonnegative vertex weight SROCT: ij =r i +r j k-MRCT is a special case of SROCT. The sources have weight 1 and others have weight 0
OCT problems
Previous results problemApprox. ratioreference OCTO(lognloglogn)SICOMP PROCTPTASJALG SROCT2DAM MRCTPTASSICOMP
Future research k-MRCT, fixed k and arbitrary k K-OCT, fixed k and arbitrary k On the plane