The Euclidean Bottleneck Steiner Tree and Steiner Tree with Minimum Number of Steiner Points

  • Authors:
  • Ding-Zhu Du;Lusheng Wang;Baogang Xu

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • COCOON '01 Proceedings of the 7th Annual International Conference on Computing and Combinatorics
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

We study variations of Steiner tree problem. Let P = {p1, p2, . . ., pn} be a set of n terminals in the Euclidean plane. For a positive integer k, the bottleneck Steiner tree problem (BSTP for short) is to find a Steiner tree with at most k Steiner points such that the length of the longest edges in the tree is minimized. For a positive constant R, the Steiner tree problem with minimum number of Steiner points (STP - MSP for short) asks for a Steiner tree such that each edge in the tree has length at most R and the number of Steiner points is minimized. In this paper, we give (1) a ratio-√3 + Ɛ approximation algorithm for BSTP, where Ɛ is an arbitrary positive number; (2) a ratio-3 approximation algorithm for STP-MSP with running time O(n3); (3) a ratio-5/2 approximation algorithm for STP-MSP.