An improved FPTAS for restricted shortest path

  • Authors:
  • Funda Ergun;Rakesh Sinha;Lisa Zhang

  • Affiliations:
  • Case Western Reserve University, 10900 Euclid Ave., 44106 Cleveland, OH;AT&T Labs, Middletown, NJ;Bell Laboratories, 700 Mountain Av., Murray Hill, NJ

  • Venue:
  • Information Processing Letters
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

Given a graph with a cost and a delay on each edge, Restricted Shortest Path (RSP) aims to find a min-cost s-t path subject to an end-to-end delay constraint. The problem is NP-hard. In this note we present an FPTAS with an improved running time of O(mn/ε) for acyclic graphs, where m and n denote the number of edges and nodes in the graph. Our algorithm uses a scaling and rounding technique similar to that of Hassin [Math. Oper. Res. 17 (1) (1992) 36-42]. The novelty of our algorithm lies in its "adaptivity". During each iteration of our algorithm the approximation parameters are fine-tuned according to the quality of the current solution so that the running time is kept low while progress is guaranteed at each iteration. Our result improves those of Hassin [Math. Open Res. 17 (1) (1992) 36-42], Phillips [Proc. 25th Annual ACM Symposium on the Theory of Computing, 1993, pp. 776-785], and Raz and Lorenz [Technical Report, 1999].