Region-fault tolerant geometric spanners

  • Authors:
  • M. A. Abam;M. de Berg;M. Farshi;J. Gudmundsson

  • Affiliations:
  • TU Eindhoven, the Netherlands and Scientific Research (NWO);TU Eindhoven, the Netherlands and Scientific Research (NWO);TU Eindhoven, the Netherlands and Research and Technology of I. R. Iran;NICTA, Sydney, Australia

  • Venue:
  • SODA '07 Proceedings of the eighteenth annual ACM-SIAM symposium on Discrete algorithms
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

We introduce the concept of region-fault tolerant spanners for planar point sets, and prove the existence of region-fault tolerant spanners of small size. For a geometric graph G on a point set P and a region F, we define G ⊖ F to be what remains of G after the vertices and edges of G intersecting F have been removed. A C-fault tolerant t-spanner is a geometric graph G on P such that for any convex region F, the graph G ⊖ F is a t-spanner for Gc(P)⊖F, where Gc(P) is the complete geometric graph on P. We prove that any set P of n points admits a C-fault tolerant (1 + ε)-spanner of size O(n log n), for any constant ε 0; if adding Steiner points is allowed then the size of the spanner reduces to O(n), and for several special cases we show how to obtain region-fault tolerant spanners of O(n) size without using Steiner points. We also consider fault-tolerant geodesic t-spanners: this is a variant where, for any disk D, the distance in G ⊖ D between any two points u, v ε P \ D is at most t times the geodesic distance between u and v in R2 \ D. We prove that for any P we can add O(n) Steiner points to obtain a fault-tolerant geodesic (1 + ε)-spanner of size O(n).