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Geometric Spanner Networks

By Giri Narasimhan , Michiel Smid

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2007
ISBN
0521815134, 9780521815130, 9780511269943
Open Library ID
OL7755553M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
4 MB (4412893 bytes)
Pages
518\518
Scanned
yes
Time added
2010-05-31 00:48:14

Description

Aimed at an audience of researchers and graduate students in computational geometry and algorithm design, this book uses the Geometric Spanner Network Problem to showcase a number of useful algorithmic techniques, data structure strategies, and geometric analysis techniques with many applications, practical and theoretical. The authors present rigorous descriptions of the main algorithms and their analyses for different variations of the Geometric Spanner Network Problem. Though the basic ideas behind most of these algorithms are intuitive, very few are easy to describe and analyze. For most of the algorithms, nontrivial data structures need to be designed, and nontrivial techniques need to be developed in order for analysis to take place. Still, there are several basic principles and results that are used throughout the book. One of the most important is the powerful well-separated pair decomposition. This decomposition is used as a starting point for several of the spanner constructions.

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