Faster and simpler algorithms for multicommodity flow and otherfractional packing problems
Garg, N.; Konemann, J.
Foundations of Computer Science, 1998. Proceedings.39th Annual Symposium on
Volume , Issue , 8-11 Nov 1998 Page(s):300 - 309
Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/SFCS.1998.743463
Summary:This paper considers the problem of designing fast, approximate,
combinatorial algorithms for multicommodity flows and other fractional
packing problems. We provide a different approach to these problems
which yields faster and much simpler algorithms. Our approach also
allows us to substitute shortest path computations for min-cost flow
computations in computing maximum concurrent flow and min-cost
multicommodity flow; this yields much faster algorithms when the number
of commodities is large
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