A Study on Rapid Incremental Maximum Flow Algorithm in Dynamic Network

Yuanyuan Wang, Jianhui Ling, Sihai Zhou, Yundi Liu, Weicheng Liao, Baili Zhang
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Abstract

Maximum flow is a key measurement for the capacity of a flow network. When malfunction or damage occurs in branches of a dynamic network, it is urgent in many applications to identify whether the damaged network is still able to transfer demanded flow d. Obviously, recalculating maximum flow in the new network with the traditional algorithm is not a recommended solution for its higher time-complexity. As is known, in many existing maximum flow algorithms, the search for augmenting paths is critical but highly time-consuming. Thus, this paper proposes an incremental maximum flow algorithm based on augmented routing tree (IMFA_ART), directly producing augmenting paths without complex calculation. The algorithm caches the information of simple paths during calculating maximum flow in the original network. The cached data will be utilized to get the augmenting paths whenever network topology changes, without any complex calculation in residual network. In addition, in order to avoid traversing those invalid simple paths that contain saturated edges, an augmented routing tree is proposed to index all simple paths. With the aid of this tree, the next augmenting paths can be found sequentially to achieve maximum flow by traversing from the root to a leaf. The time complexity is determined by the height of ART, which is far less than the number of augmenting paths. Therefore, the algorithm performance can be improved significantly. Experiments show that IMFA_ART has greater advantage in time performance over Dinic, the most famous maximum flow algorithm.
动态网络中快速增量最大流量算法研究
最大流量是衡量管网容量的关键指标。当动态网络的分支发生故障或损坏时,在许多应用中迫切需要确定损坏的网络是否仍然能够传输所需的流量d。显然,由于其较高的时间复杂度,使用传统算法重新计算新网络中的最大流量并不是一种推荐的解决方案。众所周知,在许多现有的最大流算法中,寻找增强路径是非常关键的,但非常耗时。因此,本文提出了一种基于增广路由树的增量最大流量算法(IMFA_ART),直接生成增广路径,无需复杂的计算。该算法在计算原始网络的最大流量时,缓存了简单路径的信息。当网络拓扑发生变化时,利用缓存的数据获取扩展路径,无需对剩余网络进行复杂的计算。此外,为了避免遍历那些包含饱和边的无效简单路径,提出了一种增广路由树对所有简单路径进行索引。在这棵树的帮助下,可以依次找到下一个扩展路径,通过从根到叶的遍历来实现最大流量。时间复杂度由ART的高度决定,远小于扩增路径的数量。因此,可以显著提高算法的性能。实验表明,IMFA_ART在时间性能上比最著名的最大流量算法Dinic有更大的优势。
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