Efficient construction of low weight bounded degree planar spanner

  • Authors:
  • Xiang-Yang Li;Yu Wang

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL;Department of Computer Science, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL

  • Venue:
  • COCOON'03 Proceedings of the 9th annual international conference on Computing and combinatorics
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

Given a set V of n points in a two-dimensional plane, we give an O(n log n)-time centralized algorithm that constructs a planar t-spanner for V, for t le; max{π/2, π sin α/2 + 1} ċ Cdel, such that the degree of each node is bounded from above by 19 + ⌈2π/α⌉, and the total edge length is proportional to the weight of the minimum spanning tree of V, where 0 Cdel is the spanning ratio of the Delaunay triangulation, which is at most 4√3/9 π. Moreover, we show that our method can be extended to construct a planar bounded degree spanner for unit disk graphs with the adjustable parameter α satisfying 0 O(n) (under broadcasting communication model). These constants are all worst case constants due to our proofs. Previously, only centralized method [1] of constructing bounded degree planar spanner is known, with degree bound 27 and spanning ratio t ≃ 10.02. The distributed implementation of this centralized method takes O(n2) communications in the worst case.