Separation of partition inequalities for the (1,2)-survivable network design problem

  • Authors:
  • Hervé Kerivin;Ali Ridha Mahjoub

  • Affiliations:
  • Laboratoire LIMOS, CNRS, Université de Clermont II, Complexe Scientifique des Cézeaux, 63177 Aubière Cedex, France;Laboratoire LIMOS, CNRS, Université de Clermont II, Complexe Scientifique des Cézeaux, 63177 Aubière Cedex, France

  • Venue:
  • Operations Research Letters
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

Given a graph G=(V,E) with edge costs and an integer vector r@?Z"+^V associated with the nodes of V, the survivable network design problem is to find a minimum cost subgraph of G such that between every pair of nodes s,t of V, there are at least min{r(s),r(t)} edge-disjoint paths. In this paper we consider that problem when r@?{1,2}^V. This case is of particular interest to the telecommunication industry. We show that the separation problem for the so-called partition inequalities reduces to minimizing a submodular function. This yields a polynomial time separation algorithm for these inequalities in that case.