Graph-Theory-Push-Relabel

Push-Relabel Algorithm for Maximum Flow Problem

Introduction

When a Graph Represent a Flow Network where every edge has a capacity. Also given that two vertices, source 's' and sink 't' in the graph, we can find the maximum possible flow from s to t with having following constraints:

1. Flow on an edge doesn't exceed the given edge capacity
2. Incoming flow is equal to Outgoing flow for every vertex excluding sink and source

Algorithm

* Input: network (G = (V, E), s, t, c)
* h[s] := |V |
* for each v ∈ V − {s} do h[v] := 0
* for each (s, v) ∈ E do f(s, v) := c(s, v)
* while f is not a feasible flow
	* let c'(u, v) = c(u, v) + f(u, v) − f(v, u) be the capacities of the residual network
	* if there is a vertex v ∈ V − {s, t} and a vertex w ∈ V such that ef (v) > 0, h(v) > h(w), and c'(v, w) > 0 then
		∗ push min{c'(v, w), ef (v)} units of flow on the edge (v, w)
	* else, let v be a vertex such that ef (v) > 0, and set h[v] := h[v] + 1
* output f

Example

Consider the following graph

Maximum possible flow in the given graph is 23

var pushRelabel = require('graph-theory-push-relabel');

var graph = [
	[ 0, 16,  13, 0,  0,  0 ],
    [ 0,  0, 10, 12,  0,  0 ],
    [ 0,  4,  0,  0, 14,  0 ],
    [ 0,  0,  9,  0,  0, 20 ],
    [ 0,  0,  0,  7,  0,  4 ],
    [ 0,  0,  0,  0,  0,  0 ]
];

console.log("The maximum possible flow is " +
	pushRelabel.PushRelabel(graph, 0, 5));

Usage

require('graph-theory-push-relabel')( graph, source, sink )

Compute the maximum flow in a flow network between source node source and sink node sink.

Arguments:

• graph: The Graph which representing the flow network
• source: source vertex
• sink: sink vertex

Returns: Returns a number representing the maximum flow.

License

© 2016 Prabod Rathnayaka. MIT License.