A new model for multicommodity flow problems, and a strongly polynomial algorithm for single-source maximum concurrent flow

Pierre Olivier Bauguion, Walid Ben-Ameur, Eric Gourdin

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Abstract

In this paper, a new decomposition approach is proposed to solve large size instances of Multicommodity Flow problems. Instead of generating paths, we generate trees in a convenient way. Numerical results show that the new approach is much more efficient than the classical paths generation approach. Moreover, we propose a combinatorial polynomial-time algorithm to solve the maximum concurrent flow problem (MCF) in the single-source case.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)311-318
Number of pages8
JournalElectronic Notes in Discrete Mathematics
Volume41
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 9 Jul 2013

Keywords

  • Column generation
  • Maximum concurrent flow
  • Tree packing

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