On Exact Solutions to the Euclidean Bottleneck Steiner Tree Problem

  • Authors:
  • Sang Won Bae;Chunseok Lee;Sunghee Choi

  • Affiliations:
  • Division of Computer Science, KAIST, Korea;Division of Computer Science, KAIST, Korea;Division of Computer Science, KAIST, Korea

  • Venue:
  • WALCOM '09 Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Algorithms and Computation
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

We study the Euclidean bottleneck Steiner tree problem: given a set P of n points in the Euclidean plane, called terminals, find a Steiner tree with at most k Steiner points such that the length of the longest edge in the tree is minimized. This problem is known to be NP-hard even to approximate within ratio $\sqrt{2}$. We focus on finding exact solutions to the problem for a small constant k . Based on geometric properties of optimal location of Steiner points, we present an O (n logn ) time exact algorithm for k = 1 and an O (n 2) time algorithm for k = 2. Also, we present an O (n logn ) time exact algorithm to the problem for a special case where there is no edge between Steiner points.