Abstract
In the Survivable Network Design Problem ( SNDP ) one seeks to find a minimum cost subgraph that satisfies prescribed node-connectivity requirements. We give a novel approximation ratio preserving reduction from Directed SNDP to Undirected SNDP . Our reduction extends and widely generalizes as well as significantly simplifies the main results of [G. Kortsarz, R. Krauthgamer, J.R. Lee, Hardness of approximation for vertex-connectivity network design problems, SIAM Journal on Computing 33 (3) (2004) 704–720]. Using it, we derive some new hardness of approximation results, as follows. We show that directed and undirected variants of SNDP and of k - Connected Subgraph are equivalent w.r.t. approximation, and that a ρ -approximation for Undirected Rooted SNDP implies a ρ -approximation for Directed Steiner Tree .
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