Approximating Multicast Congestion

  • Authors:
  • Santosh Vempala;Berthold Vöcking

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • ISAAC '99 Proceedings of the 10th International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation
  • Year:
  • 1999

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Abstract

We present a randomized algorithm for approximating multicast congestion (a generalization of path congestion) to within O(log n) times the best possible. Our main tools are a linear programming relaxation and iterated randomized rounding.