Approximating k-hop minimum-spanning trees

  • Authors:
  • Ernst Althaus;Stefan Funke;Sariel Har-Peled;Jochen KöNemann;Edgar A. Ramos;Martin Skutella

  • Affiliations:
  • Université Henri Poincaré, LORIA, B.P. 239, F-54506 Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy, France;Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik, Stuhlsatzenhausweg 85, 66123 Saarbrücken, Germany;University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA;Department of Combinatorics and Optimization, University of Waterloo, 200 University Avenue West, Waterloo, Canada ON N2L 3G1;University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA;Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik, Stuhlsatzenhausweg 85, 66123 Saarbrücken, Germany

  • Venue:
  • Operations Research Letters
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

Given a complete graph on~n nodes with metric edge costs, the minimum-costk-hop spanning tree (kHMST) problem asks for a spanning tree of minimum total cost such that the longest root-leaf-path in the tree has at most k edges. We present an algorithm that computes such a tree of total expected cost O(logn) times that of a minimum-cost k-hop spanning-tree.