Optimal Construction of Edge-Disjoint Paths in Random Regular Graphs

  • Authors:
  • Alan M. Frieze;Lei Zhao

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Mathematical Sciences, Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA (e-mail: alan@random.math.cmu.edu, lzhao@andrew.cmu.edu);Department of Mathematical Sciences, Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA (e-mail: alan@random.math.cmu.edu, lzhao@andrew.cmu.edu)

  • Venue:
  • Combinatorics, Probability and Computing
  • Year:
  • 2000

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Abstract

Given a graph G = (V, E) and a set of κ pairs of vertices in V, we are interested in finding, for each pair (ai, bi), a path connecting ai to bi such that the set of κ paths so found is edge-disjoint. (For arbitrary graphs the problem is 𝒩𝒫-complete, although it is in 𝒫 if κ is fixed.)We present a polynomial time randomized algorithm for finding edge-disjoint paths in the random regular graph Gn,r, for sufficiently large r. (The graph is chosen first, then an adversary chooses the pairs of end-points.) We show that almost every Gn,r is such that all sets of κ = Ω(n/log n) pairs of vertices can be joined. This is within a constant factor of the optimum.