The minimum risk spanning tree problem

  • Authors:
  • Xujin Chen;Jie Hu;Xiaodong Hu

  • Affiliations:
  • Institute of Applied Mathematics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China;Institute of Applied Mathematics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China;Institute of Applied Mathematics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

  • Venue:
  • COCOA'07 Proceedings of the 1st international conference on Combinatorial optimization and applications
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

This paper studies a spanning tree problem with interval data that finds diverse applications in network design. Given an underlying network G = (V,E), each link e ∈ E can be established by paying a cost ce ∈ [ce, ce], and accordingly takes a risk ce-ce/ce-ce of link failure. The minimum risk spanning tree (MRST) problem is to establish a spanning tree in G of total cost no more than a given constant so that the risk sum over the links on the spanning tree is minimized. In this paper, we propose an exact algorithm for the MRST problem that has time-complexity of O(m2 log m log n(m + n log n)), where m = |E| and n = |V|.