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Multicommodity Flow


A multicommodity flow in a network routes several specified source-destination demands simultaneously, subject to a common capacity constraint on each graph edge. In a fractional multicommodity flow, a demand may be split among several paths. For an undirected graph edge, traffic in both directions shares the same capacity (Langberg and Médard 2009).

The Langberg-Médard conjecture gives a sufficient condition for such routing after the orientations of a directed multicast network are removed.


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Network Flow

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References

Langberg, M. and Médard, M. "On the Multiple Unicast Network Coding Conjecture." In Proc. 47th Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing. Monticello, IL: IEEE, pp. 222-227, 2009. https://doi.org/10.1109/ALLERTON.2009.5394800.

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Weisstein, Eric W. "Multicommodity Flow." From MathWorld--A Wolfram Resource. https://mathworld.wolfram.com/MulticommodityFlow.html

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