A note on the greedy algorithm for the unsplittable flow problem

  • Authors:
  • Petr Kolman

  • Affiliations:
  • Institute for Theoretical Computer Science, Charles University, Malostranské nám. 25, 118 00 Prague, Czech Republic

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

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Abstract

In a recent paper Chekuri and Khanna improved the analysis of the greedy algorithm for the edge disjoint paths problem and proved the same bounds also for the related uniform capacity unsplittable flow problem. Here we show that their ideas can be used to get the same approximation ratio even for the more general Unsplittable Flow Problem with nonuniform edge capacities.