Polynomial time approximations for multi-path routing with bandwidth and delay constraints

Satyajayant Misra, Guoliang Xue, Dejun Yang

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Abstract

In this paper, we study the problem of multi-path routing with bandwidth and delay constraints, which arises in applications for video delivery over bandwidth-limited networks. Assume that each link in the network has a bandwidth and a delay. For a given source-destination pair and a bandwidth requirement, we want to find a set of source to destination paths such that the delay of the longest path is minimized while the aggregated bandwidth of the set of paths meets the bandwidth requirement. This problem is NP-hard, and the state of the art is a maximum flow based heuristic. We first construct a class of examples showing that the maximum flow based heuristic could have very bad performance. We then present a fully polynomial time approximation scheme that can compute a (1 +)-approximation with running time bounded by a polynomial in 1/and the input size of the instance. Given the NP-hardness of the problem, our approximation scheme is the best possible. We also present numerical results confirming the advantage of our scheme over the current state of the art.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationIEEE INFOCOM 2009 - The 28th Conference on Computer Communications
Pages558-566
Number of pages9
DOIs
StatePublished - 2009
Event28th Conference on Computer Communications, IEEE INFOCOM 2009 - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Duration: Apr 19 2009Apr 25 2009

Publication series

NameProceedings - IEEE INFOCOM
ISSN (Print)0743-166X

Other

Other28th Conference on Computer Communications, IEEE INFOCOM 2009
Country/TerritoryBrazil
CityRio de Janeiro
Period4/19/094/25/09

Keywords

  • Band-width and delay constraints
  • Multi-path routing
  • Polynomial time approximation
  • Quality of service routing

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Computer Science
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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