In this paper we study the dynamic version of the covering problem motivated by the coverage of drones' swarm: Let S be a set of n non-negative weighted points in the plane representing users. Also, consider a set P of m disks that correspond to the covering radius of each drone. We want to place (and maintain) set P such that the sum of the weights of the points in S covered by disks from P is maximized. We present a data structure that maintains a small constant factor approximate solution efficiently, under insertions and deletions of points to/from S where each update operation can be performed O(logn) time.
@article{arxiv.1912.06360,
title = {Construction and Maintenance of Swarm Drones},
author = {Kiril Danilchenko and Michael Segal},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1912.06360},
year = {2019}
}