Exact Algorithms for the Bottleneck Steiner Tree Problem

  • Authors:
  • Sang Won Bae;Sunghee Choi;Chunseok Lee;Shin-Ichi Tanigawa

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science and Engineering, POSTECH, Pohang, Korea;Division of Computer Science, KAIST, Daejeon, Korea;Division of Computer Science, KAIST, Daejeon, Korea;Department of Architecture and Architectural Engineering, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

  • Venue:
  • ISAAC '09 Proceedings of the 20th International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

Given n terminals in the plane 驴2 and a positive integer k, the bottleneck Steiner tree problem is to find k Steiner points in 驴2 so that the longest edge length of the resulting Steiner tree is minimized. In this paper, we study this problem in any L p metric. We present the first fixed-parameter tractable algorithm running in O(f(k)·n 2logn) time for the L 1 and the L 驴 metrics, and the first exact algorithm for any other L p metric with 1 p O(f(k)·(n k + n logn)), where f(k) is a function dependent only on k. Note that prior to this paper there was no known exact algorithm even for the L 2 metric, and our algorithms take a polynomial time in n for fixed k.