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Improved Approximations for Flexible Network Design

Authors Dylan Hyatt-Denesik , Afrouz Jabal-Ameli , Laura Sanità

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

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Abstract

Flexible network design deals with building a network that guarantees some connectivity requirements between its vertices, even when some of its elements (like vertices or edges) fail. In particular, the set of edges (resp. vertices) of a given graph are here partitioned into safe and unsafe. The goal is to identify a minimum size subgraph that is 2-edge-connected (resp. 2-vertex-connected), and stay so whenever any of the unsafe elements gets removed. 
In this paper, we provide improved approximation algorithms for flexible network design problems, considering both edge-connectivity and vertex-connectivity, as well as connectivity values higher than 2. For the vertex-connectivity variant, in particular, our algorithm is the first with approximation factor strictly better than 2.

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Dylan Hyatt-Denesik, Afrouz Jabal-Ameli, and Laura Sanità. Improved Approximations for Flexible Network Design. In 32nd Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2024). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 308, pp. 74:1-74:14, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2024) https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.ESA.2024.74

Author Details

Dylan Hyatt-Denesik
  • Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
Afrouz Jabal-Ameli
  • Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
Laura Sanità
  • Department of Computing Sciences, Bocconi University, Milan, Italy

Funding

The second and the third authors are grateful for the support received from the NWO- VIDI grant VI.Vidi.193.087.

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