TY - GEN
T1 - Notions of connectivity in overlay networks
AU - Emek, Yuval
AU - Fraigniaud, Pierre
AU - Korman, Amos
AU - Kutten, Shay
AU - Peleg, David
N1 - Funding Information:
Supported in part by a France-Israel cooperation grant (“Mutli-Computing” project) from the France Ministry of Science and Israel Ministry of Science, by the Technion Cordon center for System Engineering, and by the ISF.
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - "How well connected is the network?" This is one of the most fundamental questions one would ask when facing the challenge of designing a communication network. Three major notions of connectivity have been considered in the literature, but in the context of traditional (single-layer) networks, they turn out to be equivalent. This paper introduces a model for studying the three notions of connectivity in multi-layer networks. Using this model, it is easy to demonstrate that in multi-layer networks the three notions may differ dramatically. Unfortunately, in contrast to the single-layer case, where the values of the three connectivity notions can be computed efficiently, it has been recently shown in the context of WDM networks (results that can be easily translated to our model) that the values of two of these notions of connectivity are hard to compute or even approximate in multi-layer networks. The current paper shed some positive light into the multi-layer connectivity topic: we show that the value of the third connectivity notion can be computed in polynomial time and develop an approximation for the construction of well connected overlay networks.
AB - "How well connected is the network?" This is one of the most fundamental questions one would ask when facing the challenge of designing a communication network. Three major notions of connectivity have been considered in the literature, but in the context of traditional (single-layer) networks, they turn out to be equivalent. This paper introduces a model for studying the three notions of connectivity in multi-layer networks. Using this model, it is easy to demonstrate that in multi-layer networks the three notions may differ dramatically. Unfortunately, in contrast to the single-layer case, where the values of the three connectivity notions can be computed efficiently, it has been recently shown in the context of WDM networks (results that can be easily translated to our model) that the values of two of these notions of connectivity are hard to compute or even approximate in multi-layer networks. The current paper shed some positive light into the multi-layer connectivity topic: we show that the value of the third connectivity notion can be computed in polynomial time and develop an approximation for the construction of well connected overlay networks.
KW - Overlay networks
KW - approximation
KW - connectivity
KW - graph theory
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84864065472&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-31104-8_3
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-31104-8_3
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AN - SCOPUS:84864065472
SN - 9783642311031
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 25
EP - 35
BT - Structural Information and Communication Complexity - 19th International Colloquium, SIROCCO 2012, Proceedings
T2 - 19th International Colloquium on Structural Information and Communication Complexity, SIROCCO 2012
Y2 - 30 June 2012 through 2 July 2012
ER -