Title
Exploiting symmetry in computing polyhedral bounds on network coding rate regions
Abstract
We propose an algorithm for computing polyhedral bounds on the rate regions of multi-source multi-sink network coding instances given the knowledge of symmetries of the instance as captured by the network symmetry group. We show how the network symmetry group can be interpreted as a group of symmetries of a polyhedron, which in turn enables the use techniques for exploiting symmetry in polyhedral computation to reduce the complexity of calculating the rate region. We apply these techniques to the polyhedral projection algorithm chm to list only those facets and extreme points of a polyhedral bound on rate region that are inequivalent under the action of the network symmetry group. Additionally, a generalization of this algorithm that can exploit richer super-groups of polyhedral symmetries, the restricted affine symmetry groups, is discussed.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1109/NETCOD.2015.7176793
2015 International Symposium on Network Coding (NetCod)
Keywords
Field
DocType
network coding,symmetry,polyhedral projection
Linear network coding,Affine transformation,Extreme point,Discrete mathematics,Combinatorics,Symmetry group,Dykstra's projection algorithm,Polyhedron,Frameworks supporting the polyhedral model,Homogeneous space,Mathematics
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
2374-9660
5
0.43
References 
Authors
7
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jayant Apte1222.65
John MacLaren Walsh210717.90