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Congestion-Free Rerouting of Flows on DAGs

Authors Saeed Akhoondian Amiri, Szymon Dudycz, Stefan Schmid, Sebastian Wiederrecht

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  • Networks → Network algorithms
  • Theory of computation → Network flows
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  • Unsplittable Flows
  • Reconfiguration
  • DAGs
  • FPT
  • NP-Hardness

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Abstract

Changing a given configuration in a graph into another one is known as a reconfiguration problem. Such problems have recently received much interest in the context of algorithmic graph theory. We initiate the theoretical study of the following reconfiguration problem: How to reroute k unsplittable flows of a certain demand in a capacitated network from their current paths to their respective new paths, in a congestion-free manner? This problem finds immediate applications, e.g., in traffic engineering in computer networks. We show that the problem is generally NP-hard already for k=2 flows, which motivates us to study rerouting on a most basic class of flow graphs, namely DAGs. Interestingly, we find that for general k, deciding whether an unsplittable multi-commodity flow rerouting schedule exists, is NP-hard even on DAGs. Our main contribution is a polynomial-time (fixed parameter tractable) algorithm to solve the route update problem for a bounded number of flows on DAGs. At the heart of our algorithm lies a novel decomposition of the flow network that allows us to express and resolve reconfiguration dependencies among flows.

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Saeed Akhoondian Amiri, Szymon Dudycz, Stefan Schmid, and Sebastian Wiederrecht. Congestion-Free Rerouting of Flows on DAGs. In 45th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2018). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 107, pp. 143:1-143:13, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2018) https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2018.143

Author Details

Saeed Akhoondian Amiri
  • Max-Planck Institute of Informatics, Germany
Szymon Dudycz
  • University of Wroclaw, Poland
Stefan Schmid
  • University of Vienna, Austria
Sebastian Wiederrecht
  • TU Berlin, Germany

Funding

The research of Saeed Amiri and Sebastian Wiederrecht was partly supported by the ERC consolidator grant DISTRUCT, agreement No 648527. Stefan Schmid was supported by the Danish VILLUM foundation project ReNet.

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