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In the relay placement problem the input is a set of sensors and a number r ≥ 1, the communication range of a relay. The objective is to place a minimum number of relays so that between every pair of sensors there is a path through sensors and/or relays such that the consecutive vertices of the path are within distance r if both vertices are relays and within distance 1 otherwise. We present a 3.11-approximation algorithm, and show that the problem admits no PTAS, assuming P\({}\ne{}\)NP.
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Efrat, A., Fekete, S.P., Gaddehosur, P.R., Mitchell, J.S.B., Polishchuk, V., Suomela, J. (2008). Improved Approximation Algorithms for Relay Placement. In: Halperin, D., Mehlhorn, K. (eds) Algorithms - ESA 2008. ESA 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5193. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-87744-8_30
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