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An optimization approach to the Langberg-Médard multiple unicast conjecture

Kai Cai and  Guangyue Han

Department of Mathematics, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, no, China

Received  February 2020 Revised  November 2020 Published  March 2021

Fund Project: This research is partly supported by a grant from the Research Grants Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China (Project No. 17301017) and a grant by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Project No. 61871343)

The Langberg-Médard multiple unicast conjecture claims that for any strongly reachable $ k $-pair network, there exists a multi-flow with rate $ (1,1,\dots,1) $. In this paper, we examine an optimization problem $ \mathcal P_{\mathcal S_k} $ such that its optimal value $ \mathcal O_{\mathcal S_k} $ naturally gives a lower bound on the multi-flow rate for the strongly reachable $ k $-pair network. We first prove $ \lim_{k\rightarrow \infty}\mathcal O_{\mathcal S_k} = \frac{9}{8} $ and then show that the multi-flow $ \mathcal C^*_k $ constructed in our previous work is asymptotically optimal for $ \mathcal P_{\mathcal S_k} $ and optimal if and only if $ k = 1, 2, 6, 10 $.

Keywords: Network coding, multiple unicast conjecture.
Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary: 94B99.
Citation: Kai Cai, Guangyue Han. An optimization approach to the Langberg-Médard multiple unicast conjecture. Advances in Mathematics of Communications, doi: 10.3934/amc.2021001
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K. Cai and G. Han, On network coding advantage for multiple unicast networks, in Proc. ISIT, (2015), 366–370. doi: 10.1109/ISIT.2015.7282478.  Google Scholar

[2]

K. Cai and G. Han, Coding advantage in communications among peers, in Proc. ISIT, (2016), 2309–2313. doi: 10.1109/ISIT.2016.7541711.  Google Scholar

[3]

K. Cai and G. Han, On the Langberg-Médard multiple unicast conjecture, Journal of Combinatorial Optimization, 34 (2017), 1114-1132.  doi: 10.1007/s10878-017-0132-2.  Google Scholar

[4]

K. Cai and G. Han, On the Langberg-Médard $k$-unicast conjecture with k = 3, 4, in Proc. ISIT, (2018). Google Scholar

[5]

K. Cai and G. Han, The Langberg-Médard multiple unicast conjecture: Stable 3-pair networks, in Proc. ISIT, (2020). Google Scholar

[6]

N. Harvey, R. Kleinberg and A. Lehman, On the capacity of information networks, IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory, 52 (2006), 2345-2364.  doi: 10.1109/TIT.2006.874531.  Google Scholar

[7]

K. Jain, V. V. Vazirani and G. Yuval, On the capacity of multiple unicast sessions in undirected graphs, IEEE/ACM Trans. Networking, 14 (2006), 2805-2809.  doi: 10.1109/TIT.2006.874543.  Google Scholar

[8]

M. Langberg and M. M$\acute{e}$dard, On the multiple unicast network coding conjecture, in Proc. 47th Annual Allerton, (2009), 222–227. doi: 10.1109/ALLERTON.2009.5394800.  Google Scholar

[9]

Z. Li and B. Li, Network coding: The case of multiple unicast sessions, in Proc. 42nd Annual Allerton, (2004). Google Scholar

[10]

Z. Li and C. Wu, Space information flow: Multiple unicast, in Proc. ISIT 2012, (2012), 1897–1901. doi: 10.1109/ISIT.2012.6283627.  Google Scholar

[11]

J. Li, X. Chen, X. Sun, Z. Li, and Y. Yang, Quantum network coding for multi-unicast problem based on 2D and 3D cluster states, Science China-Information Sciences, 59 (2016), 042301. doi: 10.1007/s11432-016-5539-3.  Google Scholar

[12]

A. Schrijver, Combinatorial Optimization, Springer-Verlag, 2003. Google Scholar

[13]

T. Xiahou, C. Wu, J. Huang and Z. Li, A geometric framework for investigating the multiple unicast network coding conjecture, in Proc. NetCod, (2012), 37–42. doi: 10.1109/NETCOD.2012.6261881.  Google Scholar

[14]

G. Xu, X. Chen, J. Li, C. Wang, Y. Yang and Z. Li, Network coding for quantum cooperative multicast, Quantum Information Processing, 14 (2015), 4297-4322.  doi: 10.1007/s11128-015-1098-6.  Google Scholar

[15]

Y. Yang, X. Yin, X. Chen, Y. Yang and Z. Li, A note on the multiple-unicast network coding conjecture, IEEE Communications Letters, 18 (2014), 869-872.  doi: 10.1109/LCOMM.2014.040214.140280.  Google Scholar

[16]

R. Yeung, S.-Y. Li, and N. Cai, Network Coding Theory (Foundations and Trends in Communications and Information Theory), Now Publishers Inc., Hanover, MA, USA, 2006. Google Scholar

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