Static and dynamic routing under disjoint dominant extreme demands

  • Authors:
  • A. Frangioni;F. Pascali;M. G. Scutellí

  • Affiliations:
  • Polo Universitario della Spezia, Via dei Colli 90, 19121 La Spezia, Italy;Department of Computer Science, Universitè Libre de Bruxelles, Boulevard du Triomphe CP 210/01, 1050 Bruxelles, Belgium;Dipartimento di Informatica, Universití di Pisa, Largo B. Pontecorvo 3, 56127 Pisa, Italy

  • Venue:
  • Operations Research Letters
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

This paper considers a special case of the robust network design problem where the dominant extreme points of the demand polyhedron have a disjoint support. In this case static and dynamic routing lead to the same optimal solution, both for the splittable and the unsplittable case. As a consequence, the robust network design problem with (splittable) dynamic routing is polynomially solvable, whereas it is co-NP-hard in the general case. This result applies to particular instances of the single-source Hose model.