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An Improved Algorithm for Computing All the Best Swap Edges of a Tree Spanner

Authors Davide Bilò, Feliciano Colella, Luciano Gualà, Stefano Leucci, Guido Proietti

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  • Transient edge failure
  • Swap algorithm
  • Tree spanner

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A tree sigma-spanner of a positively real-weighted n-vertex and m-edge undirected graph G is a spanning tree T of G which approximately preserves (i.e., up to a multiplicative stretch factor sigma) distances in G.
Tree spanners with provably good stretch factors find applications in communication networks, distributed systems, and network design. However, finding an optimal or even a good tree spanner is a very hard computational task.  Thus, if one has to face a transient edge failure in T, the overall effort that has to be afforded to rebuild a new tree spanner (i.e., computational costs, set-up of new links, updating of the routing tables, etc.) can be rather prohibitive. To circumvent this drawback, an effective alternative is that of associating with each  tree edge a best possible (in terms of resulting stretch) swap edge -- a well-established approach in the literature for several other tree topologies. Correspondingly, the problem of computing all the best swap edges of a tree spanner is a challenging algorithmic problem, since solving it efficiently means to exploit the structure of shortest paths not only in G, but also in all the scenarios in which an edge of T has failed. For this problem we provide a very efficient solution, running in O(n^2 log^4 n) time, which drastically improves (almost by a quadratic factor in n in dense graphs!) on the previous known best result.

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Davide Bilò, Feliciano Colella, Luciano Gualà, Stefano Leucci, and Guido Proietti. An Improved Algorithm for Computing All the Best Swap Edges of a Tree Spanner. In 28th International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation (ISAAC 2017). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 92, pp. 14:1-14:13, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2017) https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.ISAAC.2017.14

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Davide Bilò
Feliciano Colella
Luciano Gualà
Stefano Leucci
Guido Proietti

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