Balancing minimum spanning trees and shortest-path trees

TitleBalancing minimum spanning trees and shortest-path trees
Publication TypeJournal Articles
Year of Publication1995
AuthorsKhuller S, Raghavachari B, Young N
JournalAlgorithmica
Volume14
Issue4
Pagination305 - 321
Date Published1995///
Abstract

We give a simple algorithm to find a spanning tree that simultaneously approximates a shortest-path tree and a minimum spanning tree. The algorithm provides a continuous tradeoff: given the two trees and agamma>0, the algorithm returns a spanning tree in which the distance between any vertex and the root of the shortest-path tree is at most 1+radic2gamma times the shortest-path distance, and yet the total weight of the tree is at most 1+radic2/gamma times the weight of a minimum spanning tree. Our algorithm runs in linear time and obtains the best-possible tradeoff. It can be implemented on a CREW PRAM to run a logarithmic time using one processor per vertex.

DOI10.1007/BF01294129