Preprocessing an undirected planar network to enable fast approximate distance queries

  • Authors:
  • Philip Klein

  • Affiliations:
  • WaveMarket and Brown University

  • Venue:
  • SODA '02 Proceedings of the thirteenth annual ACM-SIAM symposium on Discrete algorithms
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

We describe a method for preprocessing a weighted planar undirected graph and representing the results of the preprocessing so as to facilitate subsequent approximate distance queries. For any 0 O(ε-1) time, principally consisting of about 15ε-1 additions. The representation requires storage of 7.2ε-1n log2 n distances. By using compressed representation of the distances, the number of bytes required is about .5nε-1(9 + 3 log ε-1)log2 n (at the expense of a small increase in query time).