A quasi-PTAS for unsplittable flow on line graphs

Nikhil Bansal; Amit Chakrabarti; Amir Epstein; Baruch Schieber

doi:10.1145/1132516.1132617

A quasi-PTAS for unsplittable flow on line graphs

Nikhil Bansal, Amit Chakrabarti, Amir Epstein, Baruch Schieber

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Abstract

We study the Unsplittable Flow Problem (UFP) on line graphs and cycles, focusing on the long-standing open question of whether the problem is APX-hard. We describe a deterministic quasi-polynomial time approximation scheme for UFP on line graphs, thereby ruling out an APX-hardness result, unless NP ⊆ DTIME(2^polylog(n)). Our result requires a quasi-polynomial bound on all edge capacities and demands in the input instance. We extend this result to undirected cycle graphs. Earlier results on this problem included a polynomial time (2 + ε) -approximation under the assumption that no demand exceeds any edge capacity (the "no-bottleneck assumption") and a superconstant integrality gap if this assumption did not hold. Unlike most earlier work on UFP, our results do not require a no-bottleneck assumption.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	STOC'06
Subtitle of host publication	Proceedings of the 38th Annual ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Pages	721-729
Number of pages	9
ISBN (Print)	1595931341, 9781595931344
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/1132516.1132617
State	Published - 2006
Externally published	Yes
Event	38th Annual ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing, STOC'06 - Seattle, WA, United States Duration: May 21 2006 → May 23 2006

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Name	Proceedings of the Annual ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing
Volume	2006
ISSN (Print)	0737-8017

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Conference	38th Annual ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing, STOC'06
Country/Territory	United States
City	Seattle, WA
Period	5/21/06 → 5/23/06

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

Software

Keywords

Approximation algorithms
Approximation scheme
Resource allocation
Scheduling
Unsplittable flow

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Bansal, N., Chakrabarti, A., Epstein, A., & Schieber, B. (2006). A quasi-PTAS for unsplittable flow on line graphs. In STOC'06: Proceedings of the 38th Annual ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing (pp. 721-729). (Proceedings of the Annual ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing; Vol. 2006). Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). https://doi.org/10.1145/1132516.1132617

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Bansal, N, Chakrabarti, A, Epstein, A & Schieber, B 2006, A quasi-PTAS for unsplittable flow on line graphs. in STOC'06: Proceedings of the 38th Annual ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing. Proceedings of the Annual ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing, vol. 2006, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), pp. 721-729, 38th Annual ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing, STOC'06, Seattle, WA, United States, 5/21/06. https://doi.org/10.1145/1132516.1132617

A quasi-PTAS for unsplittable flow on line graphs. / Bansal, Nikhil; Chakrabarti, Amit; Epstein, Amir et al.
STOC'06: Proceedings of the 38th Annual ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2006. p. 721-729 (Proceedings of the Annual ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing; Vol. 2006).

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