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Construction and Maintenance of Swarm Drones

Data Structures and Algorithms 2019-12-16 v1

Abstract

In this paper we study the dynamic version of the covering problem motivated by the coverage of drones' swarm: Let SS be a set of nn non-negative weighted points in the plane representing users. Also, consider a set PP of mm disks that correspond to the covering radius of each drone. We want to place (and maintain) set PP such that the sum of the weights of the points in SS covered by disks from PP is maximized. We present a data structure that maintains a small constant factor approximate solution efficiently, under insertions and deletions of points to/from SS where each update operation can be performed O(logn)O(\log n) time.

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@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}
}
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