Fast localized delaunay triangulation

  • Authors:
  • Filipe Araújo;Luís Rodrigues

  • Affiliations:
  • Departamento de Informática, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal;Departamento de Informática, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal

  • Venue:
  • OPODIS'04 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Principles of Distributed Systems
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

A localized Delaunay triangulation owns the following interesting properties in a wireless ad hoc setting: it can be built with localized information, the communication cost imposed by control information is limited and it supports geographical routing algorithms that offer guaranteed convergence. This paper presents a localized algorithm that builds a graph called planar localized Delaunay triangulation, PLDel, known to be a good spanner of the unit disk graph, UDG. Unlike previous work, our algorithm builds PLDel in a single communication step, maintaining a communication cost of O(n log n), which is within a constant of the optimum. This represents a significant practical improvement over previous algorithms with similar theoretical bounds. Furthermore, the small cost of our algorithm makes feasible to use PLDel in real systems, instead of the Gabriel or the Relative Neighborhood graphs, which are not good spanners of UDG.