On Bends and Distances of Paths Among Obstacles in Two-Layer Interconnection Model

  • Authors:
  • D. T. Lee;C. D. Yang;C. K. Wong

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Computers
  • Year:
  • 1994

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Abstract

We consider problems of finding assorted rectilinear paths among rectilinear obstacles in a two-layer interconnection model according to the number of bends and the 1-layer distance (y-distance). Using a horizontal wave-front approach, optimal /spl theta/(e log e) time algorithms are presented to find the shortest path and the minimum-bend path using linear space, and to find the shortest minimum-bend path and the minimum-bend shortest path using O(e log e) space, where e is the number of obstacle edges. By the same approach, we also derive an algorithm for finding a shortest two-layer distance (xy-distance) minimum-bend path in optimal /spl theta/(e log e) time using O(e log e) space.