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Degrees and Network Design: New Problems and Approximations

Authors Michael Dinitz, Guy Kortsarz, Shi Li

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Michael Dinitz
  • Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
Guy Kortsarz
  • Rutgers University, Camden, NJ, USA
Shi Li
  • Nanjing University, Jiangsu, China

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  • Dinitz, Michael: Supported in part by NSF awards CCF-1909111 and CCF-2228995.

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Michael Dinitz, Guy Kortsarz, and Shi Li. Degrees and Network Design: New Problems and Approximations. In Approximation, Randomization, and Combinatorial Optimization. Algorithms and Techniques (APPROX/RANDOM 2024). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 317, pp. 3:1-3:17, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2024) https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.APPROX/RANDOM.2024.3

Abstract

While much of network design focuses mostly on cost (number or weight of edges), node degrees have also played an important role. They have traditionally either appeared as an objective, to minimize the maximum degree (e.g., the Minimum Degree Spanning Tree problem), or as constraints that might be violated to give bicriteria approximations (e.g., the Minimum Cost Degree Bounded Spanning Tree problem). We extend the study of degrees in network design in two ways. First, we introduce and study a new variant of the Survivable Network Design Problem where in addition to the traditional objective of minimizing the cost of the chosen edges, we add a constraint that the 𝓁_p-norm of the node degree vector is bounded by an input parameter. This interpolates between the classical settings of maximum degree (the 𝓁_∞-norm) and the number of edges (the 𝓁₁-degree), and has natural applications in distributed systems and VLSI design. We give a constant bicriteria approximation in both measures using convex programming. Second, we provide a polylogarithmic bicriteria approximation for the Degree Bounded Group Steiner problem on bounded treewidth graphs, solving an open problem from [Guy Kortsarz and Zeev Nutov, 2022] and [X. Guo et al., 2022].

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  • Theory of computation → Approximation algorithms analysis
  • Theory of computation → Routing and network design problems
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  • Network Design
  • Degrees

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