Bounding component sizes of two-connected Steiner networks

Kenneth Hvam, Line Reinhardt, Pawel Winter*, Martin Zachariassen

*Corresponding author

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Abstract

We consider the problem of constructing a shortest Euclidean 2-connected Steiner network in the plane (SMN) for a set of n terminals. This problem has natural applications in the design of survivable communication networks.

In [P. Winter, M. Zachariasen, Two-connected Steiner networks: Structural properties, OR Letters 33 (2005) 395–402] we proved that all cycles in SMNs with Steiner points must have pairs of consecutive terminals of degree 2. We use this result and the notion of reduced block-bridge trees suggested by Luebke [E.L. Luebke, k-connected Steiner network problems, PhD thesis, University of North Carolina, USA, 2002] to show that no full Steiner tree in a SMN spans more than
terminals.
OriginalsprogEngelsk
TidsskriftInformation Processing Letters
Vol/bind104
Udgave nummer5
Sider (fra-til)159-163
ISSN0020-0190
DOI
StatusUdgivet - 2007
Udgivet eksterntJa

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