On packing and coloring hyperedges in a cycle

  • Authors:
  • Jianping Li;Kang Li;Ken C. K. Law;Hao Zhao

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Mathematics, Yunnan University, Kunming, P.R. China;School of Information Science and Engineering, Shandong University, Shandong, P.R. China;Department of Computer Science, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, P.R. China;Department of Computer Science, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, P.R. China

  • Venue:
  • COCOON'05 Proceedings of the 11th annual international conference on Computing and Combinatorics
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

For a hypergraph and k different colors, we study the problem of packing and coloring some hyperedges of the hypergraph as paths in a cycle such that the total profit of the chosen hyperedges are maximized, here each link ej on the cycle is used at most cj times, each hyperedge hi has a profit pi and any two paths, each spanning all vertices of its corresponding hyperedge, must receive different colors if they share a link. This new problem arises in optical communication networks and it is called the Maximum Profits of Packing and Coloring Hyperedges in a Cycle problem (MPPCHC). In this paper, we prove that the MPPCHC problem is NP-hard and present a 2-approximation algorithm. For the special case, where each hyperedge has the same profit and each capacity cj is k, we propose a $\frac{3}{2}$-approximation algorithm to handle the problem. AMS Classifications: 90B10, 94C15.