Presentation 2017-11-15
A Solution of Minimum Link Flow Problem with Sparse Modeling
Ryotaro Matsuo, Ryo Nakamura, Hiroyuki Ohsaki,
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Abstract(in English) In recent years, a statistical approach for estimating unobserved model parameters from a small number of observations utilizing the sparsity of model parameters called sparse modeling have been extensively studied. Although many applications of sparse modeling to practical problems have been investigated in the field of signal processing and image processing, to the best of our knowledge, there have been not many studies in the field of information networking. In this paper, we investigate how sparse modeling can be utilized to a network flow problem. More specifically, we focus on the minimum link flow problem which is similar to the classical minimum cost flow problem, but its objective is minimization of the number of links consisting the flow, rather than minimization of the total link costs. We present a sparse-modeling-based formulation of the minimum link flow problem and investigate how effectively our formulation of the minimum link flow problem can be solved with a conventional greedy algorithm called the OMP (Orthogonal Matching Pursuit) algorithm.
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Keyword(in English) Sparse ModelingMinimum Link Flow ProblemNetwork FlowOMP (Orthogonal Matching Pursuit)
Paper # IA2017-34
Date of Issue 2017-11-08 (IA)

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Committee IA
Conference Date 2017/11/15(2days)
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Place (in English) KMITL, Bangkok, Thailand
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Topics (in English) IA2017 - Workshop on Internet Architecture and Applications 2017
Chair Katsuyoshi Iida(Hokkaido Univ.)
Vice Chair Rei Atarashi(IIJ) / Hiroyuki Osaki(Kwansei Gakuin Univ.) / Tomoki Yoshihisa(Osaka Univ.)
Secretary Rei Atarashi(Tokyo Metropolitan Univ.) / Hiroyuki Osaki(TOYOTA-IT) / Tomoki Yoshihisa
Assistant Kenji Ohira(Tokushima Univ.) / Ryohei Banno(NTT) / Toshiki Watanabe(NEC)

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Language ENG
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Title (in English) A Solution of Minimum Link Flow Problem with Sparse Modeling
Sub Title (in English) Formulation and Preliminary Results
Keyword(1) Sparse ModelingMinimum Link Flow ProblemNetwork FlowOMP (Orthogonal Matching Pursuit)
1st Author's Name Ryotaro Matsuo
1st Author's Affiliation Kwansei Gakuin University(Kwansei Gakuin Univ.)
2nd Author's Name Ryo Nakamura
2nd Author's Affiliation Kwansei Gakuin University(Kwansei Gakuin Univ.)
3rd Author's Name Hiroyuki Ohsaki
3rd Author's Affiliation Kwansei Gakuin University(Kwansei Gakuin Univ.)
Date 2017-11-15
Paper # IA2017-34
Volume (vol) vol.117
Number (no) IA-299
Page pp.pp.23-26(IA),
#Pages 4
Date of Issue 2017-11-08 (IA)