A constant-factor approximation for multi-covering with disks

  • Authors:
  • Santanu Bhowmick;Kasturi Varadarajan;Shi-Ke Xue

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA;University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA;Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the twenty-ninth annual symposium on Computational geometry
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

We consider variants of the following multi-covering problem with disks. We are given two point sets Y (servers) and X (clients) in the plane, and a coverage function κ :X - N. Centered at each server is a single disk whose radius we are free to set. The requirement is that each client x ∈ X be covered by at least κ(x) of the server disks. The objective function we wish to minimize is the sum of the areas of the disks. We present a polynomial time algorithm for this problem achieving an O(1) approximation.