An FPTAS for Shortest-Longest Path Problem
arXiv:2404.13488
Abstract
Motivated by multi-domain service function chain (SFC) orchestration, we define the shortest-longest path (SLP) problem, prove its hardness, and design an efficient fully polynomial time approximation scheme (FPTAS) using the dynamic programming (DP) and scaling and rounding (SR) techniques to compute an approximation solution with provable performance guarantee. The SLP problem and its solution algorithm have theoretical significance in multicriteria optimization and also have application potential in QoS routing and multi-domain network resource allocation scenarios.