Finding a feasible flow in a strongly connected network

  • Authors:
  • Bernhard Haeupler;Robert E. Tarjan

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, Princeton University, 35 Olden Street, Princeton, NJ 08540-5233, United States;Department of Computer Science, Princeton University, 35 Olden Street, Princeton, NJ 08540-5233, United States and HP Laboratories, Palo Alto CA, United States

  • Venue:
  • Operations Research Letters
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

We give a linear-time algorithm to find a feasible flow in a strongly connected network with fixed supplies and demands, each summing to a common value that is at most the minimum arc capacity. This algorithm speeds up the Goldberg-Rao maximum flow method by a constant factor.