Given a set of connection requests (calls) in a communication network, the call control problem is to accept a subset of the
requests and route them along paths in the network such that no edge capacity is violated, with the goal of rejecting as few
requests as possible. We investigate the complexity of parameterized versions of this problem, where the number of rejected
requests is taken as the parameter. For the variant with pre-determined paths, the problem is fixed-parameter tractable in
arbitrary graphs if the link capacities are bounded by a constant, but W[2]-hard if the link capacities are arbitrary. If
the paths are not pre-determined, no FPT algorithm can exist even in series-parallel graphs unless
$
\mathcal{P} = \mathcal{N}\mathcal{P}
$
\mathcal{P} = \mathcal{N}\mathcal{P}
. Our main results are new FPT algorithms for call control in tree networks with arbitrary edge capacities and in trees of
rings with unit edge capacities in the case that the paths are not pre-determined.
Research partially supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation under Contract No. 21-63563.00 (Project AAPCN).
Supported by the joint Berlin/Zurich graduate program Combinatorics, Geometry, and Computation (CGC), financed by ETH Zurich
and the German Science Foundation (DFG).