An external memory data structure for shortest path queries (extended abstract)

  • Authors:
  • David Hutchinson;Anil Maheshwari;Norbert Zeh

  • Affiliations:
  • School of Computer Science, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada;School of Computer Science, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada;School of Computer Science, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada and Fakultät für Math. und Inf., Friedrich-Schiller-Universität, Jena, Germany

  • Venue:
  • COCOON'99 Proceedings of the 5th annual international conference on Computing and combinatorics
  • Year:
  • 1999

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Abstract

We present results related to satisfying shortest path queries on a planar graph stored in external memory. In particular, we show how to store rooted trees in external memory so that bottom-up paths can be traversed I/O-efficiently, and we present I/O-efficient algorithms for triangulating planar graphs and computing small separators of such graphs. Using these techniques, we can construct a data structure that allows for answering shortest path queries on a planar graph I/O-efficiently.