Abstract
In the Survivable Network Design Problem (SNDP) one seeks to find a minimum cost subgraph that satisfies prescribed node-connectivity requirements. We give a novel approximation ratio preserving reduction from Directed SNDP to Undirected SNDP. Our reduction extends and widely generalizes as well as significantly simplifies the main results of [G. Kortsarz, R. Krauthgamer, J.R. Lee, Hardness of approximation for vertex-connectivity network design problems, SIAM Journal on Computing 33 (3) (2004) 704-720]. Using it, we derive some new hardness of approximation results, as follows. We show that directed and undirected variants of SNDP and of k-Connected Subgraph are equivalent w.r.t. approximation, and that a ρ-approximation for Undirected Rooted SNDP implies a ρ-approximation for Directed Steiner Tree.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 2122-2125 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| Journal | Theoretical Computer Science |
| Volume | 410 |
| Issue number | 21-23 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 17 May 2009 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:This research was supported by The Open University of Israel’s Research Fund (grant no. 100685). Preliminary version in APPROX, LNCS 5171, pages 146–152. Tel.: +972 9 778 1254; fax: +972 9 778 2605. E-mail addresses: [email protected] (Y. Lando), [email protected] (Z. Nutov).
Keywords
- Directed Steiner tree
- Hardness of approximation
- Survivable Network Design Problem
- k-Connected Subgraph