Deterministic network coding by matrix completion

  • Authors:
  • Nicholas J. A. Harvey;David R. Karger;Kazuo Murota

  • Affiliations:
  • MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory;MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory;University of Tokyo

  • Venue:
  • SODA '05 Proceedings of the sixteenth annual ACM-SIAM symposium on Discrete algorithms
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

We present a new deterministic algorithm to construct network codes for multicast problems, a particular class of network information ow problems. Our algorithm easily generalizes to several variants of multicast problems. Our approach is based on a new algorithm for maximum-rank completion of mixed matrices---taking a matrix whose entries are a mixture of numeric values and symbolic variables, and assigning values to the variables so as to maximize the resulting matrix rank. Our algorithm is faster than existing deterministic algorithms and can operate over a smaller field.