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We consider beacons, an analog of geographical greedy routing, motivated by sensor network applications. A beacon b is a point object that can be activated to create a ‘magnetic pull’ towards itself everywhere in a polygonal domain P. We explore the properties of beacons and their effect on points in polygons, as well as demonstrate polynomial-time algorithms to compute a variety of structures defined by the action of beacons on P. We establish a polynomial-time algorithm for routing from a point s to a point t using a discrete set of candidate beacons, as well as a 2-approximation and a PTAS for routing between beacons placed without restriction in P.
This research was partially supported by the National Science Foundation (CCF-1018388) and the US-Israel Binational Science Foundation (project 2010074).
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Biro, M., Iwerks, J., Kostitsyna, I., Mitchell, J.S.B. (2013). Beacon-Based Algorithms for Geometric Routing. In: Dehne, F., Solis-Oba, R., Sack, JR. (eds) Algorithms and Data Structures. WADS 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8037. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-40104-6_14
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