Geometric Spanner Networks (Hardcover)

Part I. Introduction: 1. Introduction; 2. Algorithms and graphs; 3. The algebraic computation-tree model; Part II. Spanners Based on Simplical Cones: 4. Spanners based on the Q-graph; 5. Cones in higher dimensional space and Q-graphs; 6. Geometric analysis: the gap property; 7. The gap-greedy algorithm; 8. Enumerating distances using spanners of bounded degree; Part III. The Well Separated Pair Decomposition and its Applications: 9. The well-separated pair decomposition; 10. Applications of well-separated pairs; 11. The Dumbbell theorem; 12. Shortcutting trees and spanners with low spanner diameter; 13. Approximating the stretch factor of Euclidean graphs; Part IV. The Path Greedy Algorithm: 14. Geometric analysis: the leapfrog property; 15. The path-greedy algorithm; Part V. Further Results and Applications: 16. The distance range hierarchy; 17. Approximating shortest paths in spanners; 18. Fault-tolerant spanners; 19. Designing approximation algorithms with spanners; 20. Further results and open problems.