On minimizing the maximum congestion for Weighted Hypergraph Embedding in a Cycle

  • Authors:
  • SingLing Lee;Hann-Jang Ho

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Chung-Cheng University, Chiayi, Taiwan;Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Chung-Cheng University, Chiayi, Taiwan

  • Venue:
  • Information Processing Letters
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

The problem of Weighted Hypergraph Embedding in a Cycle (WHEC) is to embed the weighted hyperedges of a hypergraph as adjacent paths around a cycle, such that the maximum congestion over any physical link in the cycle is minimized. In this paper, we first show that even when hyperedges contain exactly two vertices, the WHEC problem is NP-complete. Afterwards we formulate the problem as an Integer Linear Program (ILP). Then, a solution with approximation ratio of two is presented by using LP-based rounding algorithm. Finally, to improve the efficiency, we develop a linear-time approximation algorithm to provide an embedding with congestion at most two times the optimum.