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Approximation Algorithms for Steiner Connectivity Augmentation

Authors Daniel Hathcock , Michael Zlatin

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  • Theory of computation → Design and analysis of algorithms
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  • Approximation Algorithms
  • Steiner Connectivity
  • Network Design

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Abstract

We consider connectivity augmentation problems in the Steiner setting, where the goal is to augment the edge-connectivity between a specified subset of terminal nodes.
In the Steiner Augmentation of a Graph problem (k-SAG), we are given a k-edge-connected subgraph H of a graph G. The goal is to augment H by including links from G of minimum cost so that the edge-connectivity between nodes of H increases by 1. This is a generalization of the Weighted Connectivity Augmentation Problem, in which only links between pairs of nodes in H are available for the augmentation. 
In the Steiner Connectivity Augmentation Problem (k-SCAP), we are given a Steiner k-edge-connected graph connecting terminals R, and we seek to add links of minimum cost to create a Steiner (k+1)-edge-connected graph for R. Note that k-SAG is a special case of k-SCAP.
The results of Ravi, Zhang and Zlatin for the Steiner Tree Augmentation problem yield a (1.5+ε)-approximation for 1-SCAP and for k-SAG when k is odd [Ravi et al., 2023]. In this work, we give a (1 + ln{2} +ε)-approximation for the Steiner Ring Augmentation Problem (SRAP). This yields a polynomial time algorithm with approximation ratio (1 + ln{2} + ε) for 2-SCAP. We obtain an improved approximation guarantee for SRAP when the ring consists of only terminals, yielding a (1.5+ε)-approximation for k-SAG for any k.

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Daniel Hathcock and Michael Zlatin. Approximation Algorithms for Steiner Connectivity Augmentation. In 32nd Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2024). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 308, pp. 67:1-67:16, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2024) https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.ESA.2024.67

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Daniel Hathcock
  • Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Michael Zlatin
  • Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

Funding

  • Hathcock, Daniel: Supported by the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship grant DGE-2140739.

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