Multipath Spanners via Fault-Tolerant Spanners

Shiri Chechik, Quentin Godfroy, David Peleg

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Abstract

An s-spanner H of a graph G is a subgraph such that the distance between any two vertices u and v in H is greater by at most a multiplicative factor s than the distance in G. Inthispaper,wefocuson an extension of the concept of spanners to p-multipath distance, defined as the smallest length of a collection of p pairwise (vertex or edge) disjoint paths. The notion of multipath spanners was introduced in [15, 16] for edge (respectively, vertex) disjoint paths. This paper significantly improves the stretch-size tradeoff result of the two previous papers, using the related concept of fault-tolerant s-spanners, introduced in [6] for general graphs. More precisely, we show that at the cost of increasing the number of edges by a polynomial factor in p and s, it is possible to obtain an s-multipath spanner, thereby improving on the large stretch obtained in [15, 16].

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationDesign and Analysis of Algorithms - 1st Mediterranean Conference on Algorithms, MedAlg 2012, Proceedings
EditorsGuy Even, Dror Rawitz
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages108-119
Number of pages12
ISBN (Print)9783642348617
DOIs
StatePublished - 2012
Event1st Mediterranean Conference on Algorithms, MedAlg 2012 - Kibbutz Ein Gedi, Israel
Duration: 3 Dec 20125 Dec 2012

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume7659 LNNS

Conference

Conference1st Mediterranean Conference on Algorithms, MedAlg 2012
Country/TerritoryIsrael
CityKibbutz Ein Gedi
Period3/12/125/12/12

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • General Computer Science

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