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On the Virtual Network Embedding polytope

Published: January 16, 2026 | arXiv ID: 2601.11419v1

By: Amal Benhamiche , Pierre Fouilhoux , Lucas Létocart and more

Potential Business Impact:

Makes computer networks faster and more efficient.

Business Areas:
Virtual Desktop Software

We initiate the polyhedral study of the Virtual Network Embedding (VNE) problem, which arises in modern telecommunication networks. We propose new valid inequalities for the so-called flow formulation. We then prove, through a dedicated flow decomposition algorithm, that these inequalities characterize the VNE polytope in the case of an embedding of a virtual edge on a substrate path. Preliminary experiments show that the new inequalities propose promising speedups for MIP solvers.

Country of Origin
🇫🇷 France

Page Count
13 pages

Category
Computer Science:
Discrete Mathematics