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On the Min-Max-Delay Problem: NP-completeness, Algorithm, and Int-Gap

@article{Liu2017OnTM,
  title={On the Min-Max-Delay Problem: NP-completeness, Algorithm, and Int-Gap},
  author={Qingyu Liu and Lei Deng and Haibo Zeng and Minghua Chen},
  journal={ArXiv},
  year={2017},
  volume={abs/1707.02650}
}
We study a delay-sensitive information flow problem where a source streams information to a sink over a directed graph G(V,E) at a fixed rate R possibly using multiple paths to minimize the maximum end-to-end delay, denoted as the Min-Max-Delay problem. Transmission over an edge incurs a constant delay within the capacity. We prove that Min-Max-Delay is weakly NP-complete, and demonstrate that it becomes strongly NP-complete if we require integer flow solution. We propose an optimal pseudo… 

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