Abstract
AbstractWe initiate the study of a fundamental combinatorial problem: Given a capacitated graph $$G=(V,E)$$G=(V,E), find a shortest walk (“route”) from a source $${s\in V}$$s∈V to a destination $$t\in V$$t∈V that includes all vertices specified by a set $$WP \subseteq V$$WP⊆V: the waypoints. This Waypoint Routing Problem finds immediate applications in the context of modern networked systems. Our main contribution is an exact polynomial-time algorithm for graphs of bounded treewidth. We also show that if the number of waypoints is logarithmically bounded, exact polynomial-time algorithms exist even for general graphs. Our two algorithms provide an almost complete characterization of what can be solved exactly in polynomial time: we show that more general problems (e.g., on grid graphs of maximum degree 3, with slightly more waypoints) are computationally intractable.
Funder
European Unions Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Subject
Applied Mathematics,Computer Science Applications,General Computer Science
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