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The Edge-Disjoint Path Problem on Random Graphs by Message-Passing

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  • Fabrizio Altarelli
  • Alfredo Braunstein
  • Luca Dall’Asta
  • Caterina De Bacco
  • Silvio Franz

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We present a message-passing algorithm to solve a series of edge-disjoint path problems on graphs based on the zero-temperature cavity equations. Edge-disjoint paths problems are important in the general context of routing, that can be defined by incorporating under a unique framework both traffic optimization and total path length minimization. The computation of the cavity equations can be performed efficiently by exploiting a mapping of a generalized edge-disjoint path problem on a star graph onto a weighted maximum matching problem. We perform extensive numerical simulations on random graphs of various types to test the performance both in terms of path length minimization and maximization of the number of accommodated paths. In addition, we test the performance on benchmark instances on various graphs by comparison with state-of-the-art algorithms and results found in the literature. Our message-passing algorithm always outperforms the others in terms of the number of accommodated paths when considering non trivial instances (otherwise it gives the same trivial results). Remarkably, the largest improvement in performance with respect to the other methods employed is found in the case of benchmarks with meshes, where the validity hypothesis behind message-passing is expected to worsen. In these cases, even though the exact message-passing equations do not converge, by introducing a reinforcement parameter to force convergence towards a sub optimal solution, we were able to always outperform the other algorithms with a peak of 27% performance improvement in terms of accommodated paths. On random graphs, we numerically observe two separated regimes: one in which all paths can be accommodated and one in which this is not possible. We also investigate the behavior of both the number of paths to be accommodated and their minimum total length.

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  • Fabrizio Altarelli & Alfredo Braunstein & Luca Dall’Asta & Caterina De Bacco & Silvio Franz, 2015. "The Edge-Disjoint Path Problem on Random Graphs by Message-Passing," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 10(12), pages 1-18, December.
  • Handle: RePEc:plo:pone00:0145222
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0145222
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