Approximation algorithms for network design: A survey

A Gupta, J Könemann - Surveys in Operations Research and Management …, 2011 - Elsevier
Network Design is an active research area in the intersection of Combinatorial Optimization
and Theoretical Computer Science that focuses on problems arising in the realm of modern …

The complexity of optimal design of temporally connected graphs

EC Akrida, L Gąsieniec, GB Mertzios… - Theory of Computing …, 2017 - Springer
We study the design of small cost temporally connected graphs, under various constraints.
We mainly consider undirected graphs of n vertices, where each edge has an associated set …

Online node-weighted steiner tree and related problems

J Naor, D Panigrahi, M Singh - 2011 IEEE 52nd Annual …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We obtain the first online algorithms for the node-weighted Steiner tree, Steiner forest and
group Steiner tree problems that achieve a poly-logarithmic competitive ratio. Our algorithm …

Approximation algorithms for network design in non-uniform fault models

C Chekuri, R Jain - arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.15547, 2024 - arxiv.org
The Survivable Network Design problem (SNDP) is a well-studied problem, motivated by the
design of networks that are robust to faults under the assumption that any subset of edges …

Beyond tree embeddings–a deterministic framework for network design with deadlines or delay

Y Azar, N Touitou - 2020 IEEE 61st Annual Symposium on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We consider network design problems with deadline or delay. All previous results for these
models are based on randomized embedding of the graph into a tree (HST) and then …

Nearly-tight lower bounds for set cover and network design with deadlines/delay

N Touitou - 32nd International Symposium on Algorithms and …, 2021 - drops.dagstuhl.de
In network design problems with deadlines/delay, an algorithm must make transmissions
over time to satisfy connectivity requests on a graph. To satisfy a request, a transmission …

Inferring social networks from outbreaks

D Angluin, J Aspnes, L Reyzin - International conference on algorithmic …, 2010 - Springer
We consider the problem of inferring the most likely social network given connectivity
constraints imposed by observations of outbreaks within the network. Given a set of vertices …

Near-optimal algorithms for stochastic online bin packing

N Ayyadevara, R Dabas, A Khan… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
We study the online bin packing problem under two stochastic settings. In the bin packing
problem, we are given n items with sizes in (0, 1] and the goal is to pack them into the …

Online network design algorithms via hierarchical decompositions

S Umboh - Proceedings of the twenty-sixth annual ACM-SIAM …, 2014 - SIAM
We develop a new approach for online network design and obtain improved competitive
ratios for several problems. Our approach gives natural deterministic algorithms and simple …

Your Mega-Constellations Can Be Slim: A Cost-Effective Approach for Constructing Survivable and Performant LEO Satellite Networks

Z Lai, Y Wang, H Li, Q Wu, Q Zhang… - … -IEEE Conference on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recently we have witnessed the active deployment of mega-constellations with hundreds to
thousands of low-earth orbit (LEO) satellites, targeting at constructing LEO satellite networks …