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Coverage with k-Transmitters in the Presence of Obstacles

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Combinatorial Optimization and Applications (COCOA 2010)

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For a fixed integer k ≥ 0, a k-transmitter is an omnidirectional wireless transmitter with an infinite broadcast range that is able to penetrate up to k “walls”, represented as line segments in the plane. We develop lower and upper bounds for the number of k-transmitters that are necessary and sufficient to cover a given collection of line segments, polygonal chains and polygons.

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Ballinger, B. et al. (2010). Coverage with k-Transmitters in the Presence of Obstacles. In: Wu, W., Daescu, O. (eds) Combinatorial Optimization and Applications. COCOA 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6509. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-17461-2_1

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