Article ID: | iaor20022322 |
Country: | United States |
Volume: | 33 |
Issue: | 3 |
Start Page Number: | 167 |
End Page Number: | 174 |
Publication Date: | May 1999 |
Journal: | Networks |
Authors: | Pantziou Grammati E., Zaroliagis Christos D., Kagaris Dimitrios, Tragoudas Spyros |
Keywords: | networks: path |
We examine the problem of transmitting in minimum time a given amount of data between a source and a destination in a network with finite channel capacities and nonzero propagation delays. In the absence of delays, the problem has been shown to be solvable in polynomial time. In this paper, we show that the general problem is NP-complete. In addition, we examine transmissions along a single path, called the quickest path, and present algorithms for general and special classes of networks that improve upon previous approaches. The first dynamic algorithm for the quickest path problem is also given.