Cost Sharing for Connectivity with Budget

01/16/2022
by   Tianyi Zhang, et al.
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We consider a cost sharing problem to connect all nodes in a weighted undirected graph, where the weight of each edge represents the cost to use the edge for the connectivity and the cost has to be shared among all connected nodes. There is one node called the source to which all the other nodes want to connect and it does not share the costs of the connectivity. As a node may need to go through other nodes to reach the source, the intermediate nodes may behave strategically to block the connection by cutting the edges adjacent to them. To prevent such strategical behavior, we design cost sharing mechanisms to incentivize all nodes not to cut any edge so that we can minimize the total cost for connecting all the nodes.

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