Related papers: Pi/2-Angle Yao Graphs are Spanners
In this paper we prove that $Y_5$, the Yao graph with five cones, is a spanner with stretch factor $\rho = 2+\sqrt{3} \approx 3.74$. Since $Y_5$ is the only Yao graph whose status of being a spanner or not was open, this completes the…
It is an open problem whether Yao-Yao graphs $\mathsf{YY}_k$ (also known as sparse-Yao graphs) are all spanners when the integer parameter $k$ is large enough. In this paper we show that, for any integer $k\geq 42$, the Yao-Yao graph…
We show that, for any integer k > 5, the Sparse-Yao graph YY_{6k} (also known as Yao-Yao) is a spanner with stretch factor 11.67. The stretch factor drops down to 4.75 for k > 7.
We prove that Y_6 is a spanner. Y_6 is the Yao graph on a set of planar points, which has an edge from each point x to a closest point y within each of the six angular cones of 60 deg surrounding x.
It is a long standing open problem whether Yao-Yao graphs $\mathsf{YY}_{k}$ are all spanners [li2002sparse]. Bauer and Damian [bauer2013infinite] showed that all $\mathsf{YY}_{6k}$ for $k \geq 6$ are spanners. Li and Zhan [li2016almost]…
In this paper, we introduce a variation of the well-studied Yao graphs. Given a set of points $S\subset \mathbb{R}^2$ and an angle $0 < \theta \leq 2\pi$, we define the continuous Yao graph $cY(\theta)$ with vertex set $S$ and angle…
The Yao graph for k=4, Y4, is naturally partitioned into four subgraphs, one per quadrant. We show that the subgraphs for one quadrant differ from the subgraphs for two adjacent quadrants in three properties: planarity, connectedness, and…
We establish an upper bound of 4.94 on the stretch factor of the Yao graph $Y_4^\infty$ defined in the $L_\infty$-metric, improving upon the best previously known upper bound of 6.31. We also establish an upper bound of 54.62 on the stretch…
We present improved upper bounds on the spanning ratio of constrained $\theta$-graphs with at least 6 cones and constrained Yao-graphs with 5 or at least 7 cones. Given a set of points in the plane, a Yao-graph partitions the plane around…
It is a standing open question to decide whether the Yao-Yao structure for unit disk graphs (UDGs) is a length spanner of not. This question is highly relevant to the topology control problem for wireless ad hoc networks. In this paper we…
For a set of points in the plane and a fixed integer $k > 0$, the Yao graph $Y_k$ partitions the space around each point into $k$ equiangular cones of angle $\theta=2\pi/k$, and connects each point to a nearest neighbor in each cone. It is…
We show that, unlike the Yao-Yao graph $YY_6$, the Theta-Theta graph $\Theta\Theta_6$ defined by six cones is a spanner for sets of points in convex position. We also show that, for sets of points in non-convex position, the spanning ratio…
A sparse graph that preserves an approximation of the shortest paths between all pairs of points in a plane is called a geometric spanner. Using range trees of sublinear size, we design an algorithm in massively parallel computation (MPC)…
Given an undirected $n$-node unweighted graph $G = (V, E)$, a spanner with stretch function $f(\cdot)$ is a subgraph $H\subseteq G$ such that, if two nodes are at distance $d$ in $G$, then they are at distance at most $f(d)$ in $H$.…
We study the problem of computing geometric spanners for (additively) weighted point sets. A weighted point set is a set of pairs $(p,r)$ where $p$ is a point in the plane and $r$ is a real number. The distance between two points…
In this paper we show that the \theta-graph with 4 cones has constant stretch factor, i.e., there is a path between any pair of vertices in this graph whose length is at most a constant times the Euclidean distance between that pair of…
Given an undirected unweighted graph $G = (V, E)$ on $n$ vertices and $m$ edges, a subgraph $H\subseteq G$ is a spanner of $G$ with stretch function $f: \mathbb{R}_+ \rightarrow \mathbb{R}_+$, if for every pair $s, t$ of vertices in $V$,…
Let ${\cal P}$ be a set of $n$ points embedded in the plane, and let ${\cal C}$ be the complete Euclidean graph whose point-set is ${\cal P}$. Each edge in ${\cal C}$ between two points $p, q$ is realized as the line segment $[pq]$, and is…
We study the spanning properties of Theta-Theta graphs. Similar in spirit with the Yao-Yao graphs, Theta-Theta graphs partition the space around each vertex into a set of k cones, for some fixed integer k > 1, and select at most one edge…
We prove that the Loop O(1) model, a well-known graphical expansion of the Ising model, is a factor of i.i.d. on unimodular random rooted graphs under various conditions, including in the presence of a non-negative external field. As an…