In most network analysis tools the computation of the shortest paths between all pairs of nodes is a fundamental step to the discovery of other properties. Among other properties is the computation of closeness centra...In most network analysis tools the computation of the shortest paths between all pairs of nodes is a fundamental step to the discovery of other properties. Among other properties is the computation of closeness centrality, a measure of the nodes that shows how central a vertex is on a given network. In this paper, the authors present a method to compute the All Pairs Shortest Paths on graphs that present two characteristics： abundance of nodes with degree value one, and existence of articulation points along the graph. These characteristics are present in many real life networks especially in networks that show a power law degree distribution as is the case of biological networks. The authors＇ method compacts the single nodes to their source, and then by using the network articulation points it disconnects the network and computes the shortest paths in the biconnected components. At the final step the authors proposed methods merges the results to provide the whole network shortest paths. The authors＇ method achieves remarkable speedup compared to state of the art methods to compute the shortest paths, as much as 7 fold speed up in artificial graphs and 3.25 fold speed up in real application graphs. The authors＇ performance improvement is unlike previous research as it does not involve elaborated setups since the authors algorithm can process significant instances on a popular workstation.展开更多
Shortest-path calculation on weighted graphs are an essential operation in computer networks. The performance of such algorithms has become a critical challenge in emerging software-defined networks(SDN),since SDN con...Shortest-path calculation on weighted graphs are an essential operation in computer networks. The performance of such algorithms has become a critical challenge in emerging software-defined networks(SDN),since SDN controllers need to centralizedly perform a shortest-path query for every flow,usually on large-scale network. Unfortunately,one of the challenges is that current algorithms will become incalculable as the network size increases. Therefore, inspired by the compression graph in the field of compute visualization,we propose an efficient shortest path algorithm by compressing the original big network graph into a small one, but the important graph properties used to calculate path is reserved. We implement a centralized version of our approach in SDN-enabled network,and the evaluations validate the improvement compared with the well-known algorithms.展开更多
The All-pairs shortest path problem(ALL-SPP)aims to find the shortest path joining all the vertices in a given graph.This study proposed a new optimal method,Dhouib-matrix-ALL-SPP(DM-ALL-SPP)to solve the ALL-SPP based...The All-pairs shortest path problem(ALL-SPP)aims to find the shortest path joining all the vertices in a given graph.This study proposed a new optimal method,Dhouib-matrix-ALL-SPP(DM-ALL-SPP)to solve the ALL-SPP based on column-row navigation through the adjacency matrix.DM-ALL-SPP is designed to generate in a single execution the shortest path with details among all-pairs of vertices for a graph with positive and negative weighted edges.Even for graphs with a negative cycle,DM-ALL-SPP reported a negative cycle.In addition,DM-ALL-SPP continues to work for directed,undirected and mixed graphs.Furthermore,it is characterized by two phases:the first phase consists of adding by column repeated(n)iterations(where n is the number of vertices),and the second phase resides in adding by row executed in the worst case(n∗log(n))iterations.The first phase,focused on improving the elements of each column by adding their values to each row and modifying them with the smallest value.The second phase is emphasized by rows only for the elements modified in the first phase.Different instances from the literature were used to test the performance of the proposed DM-ALL-SPP method,which was developed using the Python programming language and the results were compared to those obtained by the Floyd-Warshall algorithm.展开更多
Based on the definition of class shortest path in weighted rough graph, class shortest path algorithm in weighted rough graph is presented, which extends classical shortest path algorithm. The application in relations...Based on the definition of class shortest path in weighted rough graph, class shortest path algorithm in weighted rough graph is presented, which extends classical shortest path algorithm. The application in relationship mining shows effectiveness of it.展开更多
The wireless sensor networks (WSN) are formed by a large number of sensor nodes working together to provide a specific duty. However, the low energy capacity assigned to each node prompts users to look at an important...The wireless sensor networks (WSN) are formed by a large number of sensor nodes working together to provide a specific duty. However, the low energy capacity assigned to each node prompts users to look at an important design challenge such as lifetime maximization. Therefore, designing effective routing techniques that conserve scarce energy resources is a critical issue in WSN. Though, the chain-based routing is one of significant routing mechanisms but several common flaws, such as data propagation delay and redundant transmission, are associated with it. In this paper, we will be proposing an energy efficient technique based on graph theory that can be used to find out minimum path based on some defined conditions from a source node to the destination node. Initially, a sensor area is divided into number of levels by a base station based on signal strength. It is important to note that this technique will always found out minimum path and even alternate path are also saved in case of node failure.展开更多
Let be an undirected graph. The maximum cycle packing problem in G then is to find a collection of edge-disjoint cycles C<sub>i</sup>in G such that s is maximum. In general, the maximum cycle packing probl...Let be an undirected graph. The maximum cycle packing problem in G then is to find a collection of edge-disjoint cycles C<sub>i</sup>in G such that s is maximum. In general, the maximum cycle packing problem is NP-hard. In this paper, it is shown for even graphs that if such a collection satisfies the condition that it minimizes the quantityon the set of all edge-disjoint cycle collections, then it is a maximum cycle packing. The paper shows that the determination of such a packing can be solved by a dynamic programming approach. For its solution, an-shortest path procedure on an appropriate acyclic networkis presented. It uses a particular monotonous node potential.展开更多
With the popularity of uncertain data, queries over uncertain graphs have become a hot topic in the database community. As one of the important queries, the shortest path query over an uncertain graph has attracted mu...With the popularity of uncertain data, queries over uncertain graphs have become a hot topic in the database community. As one of the important queries, the shortest path query over an uncertain graph has attracted much attention of researchers due to its wide applications. Although there are some e？cient solutions addressing this problem, all existing models ignore an important property existing in uncertain graphs： the correlation among the edges sharing the same vertex. In this paper, we apply Markov network to model the hidden correlation in uncertain graphs and compute the shortest path. Unfortunately, calculating the shortest path and corresponding probability over uncertain graphs modeled by Markov networks is a #P-hard problem. Thus, we propose a filtering-and-verification framework to accelerate the queries. In the filtering phase, we design a probabilistic shortest path index based on vertex cuts and blocks of a graph. We find a series of upper bounds and prune the vertices and edges whose upper bounds of the shortest path probability are lower than the threshold. By carefully picking up the blocks and vertex cuts, the index is optimized to have the maximum pruning capability, so that we can filter a large number of vertices which make no contribution to the final shortest path query results. In the verification phase, we develop an e？cient sampling algorithm to determine the final query answers. Finally, we verify the e？ciency and effectiveness of our solutions with extensive experiments.展开更多
文摘In most network analysis tools the computation of the shortest paths between all pairs of nodes is a fundamental step to the discovery of other properties. Among other properties is the computation of closeness centrality, a measure of the nodes that shows how central a vertex is on a given network. In this paper, the authors present a method to compute the All Pairs Shortest Paths on graphs that present two characteristics： abundance of nodes with degree value one, and existence of articulation points along the graph. These characteristics are present in many real life networks especially in networks that show a power law degree distribution as is the case of biological networks. The authors＇ method compacts the single nodes to their source, and then by using the network articulation points it disconnects the network and computes the shortest paths in the biconnected components. At the final step the authors proposed methods merges the results to provide the whole network shortest paths. The authors＇ method achieves remarkable speedup compared to state of the art methods to compute the shortest paths, as much as 7 fold speed up in artificial graphs and 3.25 fold speed up in real application graphs. The authors＇ performance improvement is unlike previous research as it does not involve elaborated setups since the authors algorithm can process significant instances on a popular workstation.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.61521003)
文摘Shortest-path calculation on weighted graphs are an essential operation in computer networks. The performance of such algorithms has become a critical challenge in emerging software-defined networks(SDN),since SDN controllers need to centralizedly perform a shortest-path query for every flow,usually on large-scale network. Unfortunately,one of the challenges is that current algorithms will become incalculable as the network size increases. Therefore, inspired by the compression graph in the field of compute visualization,we propose an efficient shortest path algorithm by compressing the original big network graph into a small one, but the important graph properties used to calculate path is reserved. We implement a centralized version of our approach in SDN-enabled network,and the evaluations validate the improvement compared with the well-known algorithms.
文摘The All-pairs shortest path problem(ALL-SPP)aims to find the shortest path joining all the vertices in a given graph.This study proposed a new optimal method,Dhouib-matrix-ALL-SPP(DM-ALL-SPP)to solve the ALL-SPP based on column-row navigation through the adjacency matrix.DM-ALL-SPP is designed to generate in a single execution the shortest path with details among all-pairs of vertices for a graph with positive and negative weighted edges.Even for graphs with a negative cycle,DM-ALL-SPP reported a negative cycle.In addition,DM-ALL-SPP continues to work for directed,undirected and mixed graphs.Furthermore,it is characterized by two phases:the first phase consists of adding by column repeated(n)iterations(where n is the number of vertices),and the second phase resides in adding by row executed in the worst case(n∗log(n))iterations.The first phase,focused on improving the elements of each column by adding their values to each row and modifying them with the smallest value.The second phase is emphasized by rows only for the elements modified in the first phase.Different instances from the literature were used to test the performance of the proposed DM-ALL-SPP method,which was developed using the Python programming language and the results were compared to those obtained by the Floyd-Warshall algorithm.
基金Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province of China (Y2004A04)Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province of China (Y2006A12)Foundation of Ministry of Fujian Province Education of China (JA04268).
文摘Based on the definition of class shortest path in weighted rough graph, class shortest path algorithm in weighted rough graph is presented, which extends classical shortest path algorithm. The application in relationship mining shows effectiveness of it.
文摘The wireless sensor networks (WSN) are formed by a large number of sensor nodes working together to provide a specific duty. However, the low energy capacity assigned to each node prompts users to look at an important design challenge such as lifetime maximization. Therefore, designing effective routing techniques that conserve scarce energy resources is a critical issue in WSN. Though, the chain-based routing is one of significant routing mechanisms but several common flaws, such as data propagation delay and redundant transmission, are associated with it. In this paper, we will be proposing an energy efficient technique based on graph theory that can be used to find out minimum path based on some defined conditions from a source node to the destination node. Initially, a sensor area is divided into number of levels by a base station based on signal strength. It is important to note that this technique will always found out minimum path and even alternate path are also saved in case of node failure.
文摘Let be an undirected graph. The maximum cycle packing problem in G then is to find a collection of edge-disjoint cycles C<sub>i</sup>in G such that s is maximum. In general, the maximum cycle packing problem is NP-hard. In this paper, it is shown for even graphs that if such a collection satisfies the condition that it minimizes the quantityon the set of all edge-disjoint cycle collections, then it is a maximum cycle packing. The paper shows that the determination of such a packing can be solved by a dynamic programming approach. For its solution, an-shortest path procedure on an appropriate acyclic networkis presented. It uses a particular monotonous node potential.
基金This work is supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant Nos. 61332006, U1401256, 61328202, 61173029, the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities of China under Grant No. N130504006, the Hong Kong RGC Project under Grant No. N_HKUST637/13, the National Basic Research 973 Program of China under Grant No. 2014CB340300, Microsoft Research Asia Gift Grant and Google Faculty Award 2013.
文摘With the popularity of uncertain data, queries over uncertain graphs have become a hot topic in the database community. As one of the important queries, the shortest path query over an uncertain graph has attracted much attention of researchers due to its wide applications. Although there are some e？cient solutions addressing this problem, all existing models ignore an important property existing in uncertain graphs： the correlation among the edges sharing the same vertex. In this paper, we apply Markov network to model the hidden correlation in uncertain graphs and compute the shortest path. Unfortunately, calculating the shortest path and corresponding probability over uncertain graphs modeled by Markov networks is a #P-hard problem. Thus, we propose a filtering-and-verification framework to accelerate the queries. In the filtering phase, we design a probabilistic shortest path index based on vertex cuts and blocks of a graph. We find a series of upper bounds and prune the vertices and edges whose upper bounds of the shortest path probability are lower than the threshold. By carefully picking up the blocks and vertex cuts, the index is optimized to have the maximum pruning capability, so that we can filter a large number of vertices which make no contribution to the final shortest path query results. In the verification phase, we develop an e？cient sampling algorithm to determine the final query answers. Finally, we verify the e？ciency and effectiveness of our solutions with extensive experiments.
