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Efficient sub-5 approximations for minimum dominating sets in unit disk graphs

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 Publication date 2012
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A unit disk graph is the intersection graph of n congruent disks in the plane. Dominating sets in unit disk graphs are widely studied due to their application in wireless ad-hoc networks. Because the minimum dominating set problem for unit disk graphs is NP-hard, numerous approximation algorithms have been proposed in the literature, including some PTAS. However, since the proposal of a linear-time 5-approximation algorithm in 1995, the lack of efficient algorithms attaining better approximation factors has aroused attention. We introduce a linear-time O(n+m) approximation algorithm that takes the usual adjacency representation of the graph as input and outputs a 44/9-approximation. This approximation factor is also attained by a second algorithm, which takes the geometric representation of the graph as input and runs in O(n log n) time regardless of the number of edges. Additionally, we propose a 43/9-approximation which can be obtained in O(n^2 m) time given only the graphs adjacency representation. It is noteworthy that the dominating sets obtained by our algorithms are also independent sets.



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Retraction note: After posting the manuscript on arXiv, we were informed by Erik Jan van Leeuwen that both results were known and they appeared in his thesis[vL09]. A PTAS for MDS is at Theorem 6.3.21 on page 79 and A PTAS for MCDS is at Theorem 6.3.31 on page 82. The techniques used are very similar. He noted that the idea for dealing with the connected version using a constant number of extra layers in the shifting technique not only appeared Zhang et al.[ZGWD09] but also in his 2005 paper [vL05]. Finally, van Leeuwen also informed us that the open problem that we posted has been resolved by Marx~[Mar06, Mar07] who showed that an efficient PTAS for MDS does not exist [Mar06] and under ETH, the running time of $n^{O(1/epsilon)}$ is best possible [Mar07]. We thank Erik Jan van Leeuwen for the information and we regret that we made this mistake. Abstract before retraction: We present two (exponentially) faster PTASs for dominating set problems in unit disk graphs. Given a geometric representation of a unit disk graph, our PTASs that find $(1+epsilon)$-approximate solutions to the Minimum Dominating Set (MDS) and the Minimum Connected Dominating Set (MCDS) of the input graph run in time $n^{O(1/epsilon)}$. This can be compared to the best known $n^{O(1/epsilon log {1/epsilon})}$-time PTAS by Nieberg and Hurink~[WAOA05] for MDS that only uses graph structures and an $n^{O(1/epsilon^2)}$-time PTAS for MCDS by Zhang, Gao, Wu, and Du~[J Glob Optim09]. Our key ingredients are improved dynamic programming algorithms that depend exponentially on more essential 1-dimensional widths of the problems.
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