Computing the Shortest Network under a Fixed Topology

  • Authors:
  • Guoliang Xue;K. Thulasiraman

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Computers
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

We show that, in any given uniform orientation metric plane, the shortest network interconnecting a given set of points under a fixed topology can be computed by solving a linear programming problem whose size is bounded by a polynomial in the number of terminals and the number of legal orientations. When the given topology is restricted to a Steiner topology, our result implies that the Steiner minimum tree under a given Steiner topology can be computed in polynomial time in any given uniform orientation metric with $\big. \lambda\bigr.$ legal orientations for any fixed integer $\big. \lambda \ge 2\bigr.$. This settles an open problem posed in a recent paper [3].