Improved approximation algorithms for Directed Steiner Forest

Moran Feldman, Guy Kortsarz, Zeev Nutov

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תקציר

We consider the k-Directed Steiner Forest (k-DSF) problem: Given a directed graph G=(V,E) with edge costs, a collection D V×V of ordered node pairs, and an integer k≤|D|, find a minimum cost subgraph H of G that contains an st-path for (at least) k pairs (s,t) D. When k=|D|, we get the Directed Steiner Forest (DSF) problem. The best known approximation ratios for these problems are: Õ(k2/3) for k-DSF by Charikar et al. (1999) [6], and O(k1/2+ε) for DSF by Chekuri et al. (2008) [7]. Our main result is achieving the first sub-linear in terms of n=|V| approximation ratio for DSF. Specifically, we give an O(.min{n4/5,m2 /3})-approximation scheme for DSF. For k-DSF we give a simple greedy O(k1/2+ε)-approximation algorithm. This improves upon the best known ratio Õ(k2/3) by Charikar et al. (1999) [6], and (almost) matches, in terms of k, the best ratio known for the undirected variant (Gupta et al., 2010 [18]). This algorithm uses a new structure called start-junction tree which may be of independent interest.

שפה מקוריתאנגלית
עמודים (מ-עד)279-292
מספר עמודים14
כתב עתJournal of Computer and System Sciences
כרך78
מספר גיליון1
מזהי עצם דיגיטלי (DOIs)
סטטוס פרסוםפורסם - ינו׳ 2012

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Funding Information:
E-mail addresses: [email protected] (M. Feldman), [email protected] (G. Kortsarz), [email protected] (Z. Nutov). 1 Part of this work was done as a part of author’s M.Sc. thesis at The Open University of Israel. 2 Partially supported by NSF support grant award number 0829959.

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