TY - GEN
T1 - Local PTAS for independent set and vertex cover in location aware unit disk graphs (Extended Abstract)
AU - Wiese, Andreas
AU - Kranakis, Evangelos
PY - 2008
Y1 - 2008
N2 - We present the first local approximation schemes for maximum independent set and minimum vertex cover in unit disk graphs. In the graph model we assume that each node knows its geographic coordinates in the plane (location aware nodes). Our algorithms are local in the sense that the status of each node v (whether or not v is in the computed set) depends only on the vertices which are a constant number of hops away from v. This constant is independent of the size of the network. We give upper bounds for the constant depending on the desired approximation ratio. We show that the processing time which is necessary in order to compute the status of a single vertex is bounded by a polynomial in the number of vertices which are at most a constant number of vertices away from it. Our algorithms give the best possible approximation ratios for this setting. The technique which we use to obtain the algorithm for vertex cover can also be employed for constructing the first global PTAS for this problem in unit disk graph which does not need the embedding of the graph as part of the input.
AB - We present the first local approximation schemes for maximum independent set and minimum vertex cover in unit disk graphs. In the graph model we assume that each node knows its geographic coordinates in the plane (location aware nodes). Our algorithms are local in the sense that the status of each node v (whether or not v is in the computed set) depends only on the vertices which are a constant number of hops away from v. This constant is independent of the size of the network. We give upper bounds for the constant depending on the desired approximation ratio. We show that the processing time which is necessary in order to compute the status of a single vertex is bounded by a polynomial in the number of vertices which are at most a constant number of vertices away from it. Our algorithms give the best possible approximation ratios for this setting. The technique which we use to obtain the algorithm for vertex cover can also be employed for constructing the first global PTAS for this problem in unit disk graph which does not need the embedding of the graph as part of the input.
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-540-69170-9_28
DO - 10.1007/978-3-540-69170-9_28
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:45849086914
SN - 3540691693
SN - 9783540691693
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 415
EP - 431
BT - Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems - 4th IEEE International Conference, DCOSS 2008, Proceedings
T2 - 4th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems, DCOSS 2008
Y2 - 11 June 2008 through 14 June 2008
ER -