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Gudmundsson, J., Narasimhan, G., Smid, M. (2016). Applications of Geometric Spanner Networks. In: Kao, MY. (eds) Encyclopedia of Algorithms. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-2864-4_15
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