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IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals

Approximation Algorithms for Multicast Routings in a Network with Multi-Sources

Ehab MOSRY, Hiroshi NAGAMOCHI

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We consider the capacitated multi-source multicast tree routing problem (CMMTR) in an undirected graph G=(V,E) with a vertex set V, an edge set E and an edge weight w(e) ≥ 0, eE. We are given a source set S ⊆ V with a weight g(e) ≥ 0, eS, a terminal set MV-S with a demand function q : MR+, and a real number κ > 0, where g(s) means the cost for opening a vertex sS as a source in a multicast tree. Then the CMMTR asks to find a subset S′⊆ S, a partition {Z1,Z2,...,Zl} of M, and a set of subtrees T1,T2,...,Tl of G such that, for each i, ∑tZiq(t) ≤ κ and Ti spans Zi∪{s} for some sS′. The objective is to minimize the sum of the opening cost of S′and the constructing cost of {Ti}, i.e., ∑sS′g(s)+w(Ti), where w(Ti) denotes the sum of weights of all edges in Ti. In this paper, we propose a (2ρUFLST)-approximation algorithm to the CMMTR, where ρUFL and ρST are any approximation ratios achievable for the uncapacitated facility location and the Steiner tree problems, respectively. When all terminals have unit demands, we give a ((3/2)ρUFL+(4/3)ρST)-approximation algorithm.

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IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals Vol.E90-A No.5 pp.900-906
Publication Date
2007/05/01
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Online ISSN
1745-1337
DOI
10.1093/ietfec/e90-a.5.900
Type of Manuscript
Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Discrete Mathematics and Its Applications)
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