A QPTAS for Facility Location on Unit Disk graphs

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Main Authors: Friggstad, Zachary, Rezapour, Mohsen, Salavatipour, Mohammad R., Sun, Hao
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author Friggstad, Zachary
Rezapour, Mohsen
Salavatipour, Mohammad R.
Sun, Hao
author_facet Friggstad, Zachary
Rezapour, Mohsen
Salavatipour, Mohammad R.
Sun, Hao
contents We study the classic \textsc{(Uncapacitated) Facility Location} problem on Unit Disk Graphs (UDGs). For a given point set $P$ in the plane, the unit disk graph UDG(P) on $P$ has vertex set $P$ and an edge between two distinct points $p, q \in P$ if and only if their Euclidean distance $|pq|$ is at most 1. The weight of the edge $pq$ is equal to their distance $|pq|$. An instance of \fl on UDG(P) consists of a set $C\subseteq P$ of clients and a set $F\subseteq P$ of facilities, each having an opening cost $f_i$. The goal is to pick a subset $F'\subseteq F$ to open while minimizing $\sum_{i\in F'} f_i + \sum_{v\in C} d(v,F')$, where $d(v,F')$ is the distance of $v$ to nearest facility in $F'$ through UDG(P). In this paper, we present the first Quasi-Polynomial Time Approximation Schemes (QPTAS) for the problem. While approximation schemes are well-established for facility location problems on sparse geometric graphs (such as planar graphs), there is a lack of such results for dense graphs. Specifically, prior to this study, to the best of our knowledge, there was no approximation scheme for any facility location problem on UDGs in the general setting.
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spellingShingle A QPTAS for Facility Location on Unit Disk graphs
Friggstad, Zachary
Rezapour, Mohsen
Salavatipour, Mohammad R.
Sun, Hao
Data Structures and Algorithms
We study the classic \textsc{(Uncapacitated) Facility Location} problem on Unit Disk Graphs (UDGs). For a given point set $P$ in the plane, the unit disk graph UDG(P) on $P$ has vertex set $P$ and an edge between two distinct points $p, q \in P$ if and only if their Euclidean distance $|pq|$ is at most 1. The weight of the edge $pq$ is equal to their distance $|pq|$. An instance of \fl on UDG(P) consists of a set $C\subseteq P$ of clients and a set $F\subseteq P$ of facilities, each having an opening cost $f_i$. The goal is to pick a subset $F'\subseteq F$ to open while minimizing $\sum_{i\in F'} f_i + \sum_{v\in C} d(v,F')$, where $d(v,F')$ is the distance of $v$ to nearest facility in $F'$ through UDG(P). In this paper, we present the first Quasi-Polynomial Time Approximation Schemes (QPTAS) for the problem. While approximation schemes are well-established for facility location problems on sparse geometric graphs (such as planar graphs), there is a lack of such results for dense graphs. Specifically, prior to this study, to the best of our knowledge, there was no approximation scheme for any facility location problem on UDGs in the general setting.
title A QPTAS for Facility Location on Unit Disk graphs
topic Data Structures and Algorithms
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.08931