An optimal greedy routing algorithm for triangulated polygons

  • Authors:
  • Omkar Kulkarni;Huaming Zhang

  • Affiliations:
  • Computer Science Department, The University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL 35899, United States;Computer Science Department, The University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL 35899, United States

  • Venue:
  • Computational Geometry: Theory and Applications
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

In this paper, we prove that a triangulated polygon G admits a greedy embedding into an appropriate semi-metric space such that using an appropriate distance definition, for any two vertices u and w in G, a most virtual distance decreasing path is always a minimum-edge path between u and w. Therefore, our greedy routing algorithm is optimal. The greedy embedding of G can be obtained in linear time. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first optimal greedy routing algorithm for a nontrivial subcategory of graphs.