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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.STACS.2020.42
URN: urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-119037
URL: http://dagstuhl.sunsite.rwth-aachen.de/volltexte/2020/11903/
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Cristi, Andrés ; Mari, Mathieu ; Wiese, Andreas

Fixed-Parameter Algorithms for Unsplittable Flow Cover

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Abstract

The Unsplittable Flow Cover problem (UFP-cover) models the well-studied general caching problem and various natural resource allocation settings. We are given a path with a demand on each edge and a set of tasks, each task being defined by a subpath and a size. The goal is to select a subset of the tasks of minimum cardinality such that on each edge e the total size of the selected tasks using e is at least the demand of e. There is a polynomial time 4-approximation for the problem [Bar-Noy et al., STOC 2000] and also a QPTAS [Höhn et al., ICALP 2014]. In this paper we study fixed-parameter algorithms for the problem. We show that it is W[1]-hard but it becomes FPT if we can slightly violate the edge demands (resource augmentation) and also if there are at most k different task sizes. Then we present a parameterized approximation scheme (PAS), i.e., an algorithm with a running time of f(k)⋅ n^O_ε(1) that outputs a solution with at most (1+ε)k tasks or assert that there is no solution with at most k tasks. In this algorithm we use a new trick that intuitively allows us to pretend that we can select tasks from OPT multiple times.

BibTeX - Entry

@InProceedings{cristi_et_al:LIPIcs:2020:11903,
  author =	{Andr{\'e}s Cristi and Mathieu Mari and Andreas Wiese},
  title =	{{Fixed-Parameter Algorithms for Unsplittable Flow Cover}},
  booktitle =	{37th International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (STACS 2020)},
  pages =	{42:1--42:17},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-140-5},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2020},
  volume =	{154},
  editor =	{Christophe Paul and Markus Bl{\"a}ser},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl--Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/volltexte/2020/11903},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-119037},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.STACS.2020.42},
  annote =	{Keywords: Unsplittable Flow Cover, fixed parameter algorithms, approximation algorithms}
}

Keywords: Unsplittable Flow Cover, fixed parameter algorithms, approximation algorithms
Collection: 37th International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (STACS 2020)
Issue Date: 2020
Date of publication: 04.03.2020

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