The widest k-set of disjoint paths problem

Finding disjoint and widest paths are key problems in telecommunication networks. In this paper, we study the Widest k-set of Disjoint Paths Problem (WKDPP), an NP-Hard optimization problem that considers both aspects. Given a digraph G=(N,A), WKDPP consists of computing k arc-disjoint paths between two nodes such that the sum of its minimum capacity arcs is maximized. We present three mathematical formulations for WKDPP, a symmetry-breaking inequality set, and propose two heuristic algorithms. Computational experiments compares the proposed heuristics with other from the literature show the effectiveness of the proposed methods.