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[A&C seminar] A Solution to the Papadimitriou-Ratajczak conjecture

Speaker: Ankur Moitra , MIT
Date: September 15 2008
Time: 4:00PM to 5:00PM
Location: G575
Host: Tom F. Leighton, MIT

{\em Geographic Routing} is a family of routing algorithms that uses geographic point locations as addresses for the purposes of routing. Such routing algorithms have proven to be both simple to implement and heuristically effective when applied to wireless sensor networks. {\em Greedy Routing} is a natural abstraction of this model in which nodes are assigned virtual coordinates in a metric space, and these coordinates are used to perform point-to-point routing.

Here we resolve a conjecture of Papadimitriou and Ratajczak that every $3$-connected planar graph admits a greedy embedding into the Euclidean plane. This immediately implies that all $3$-connected graphs that exclude $K_{3,3}$ as a minor admit a greedy embedding into the Euclidean plane. Additionally, we provide the first non-trivial examples of graphs that admit no such embedding. These structural results provide efficiently verifiable certificates that a graph admits a greedy embedding or that a graph admits no greedy embedding into the Euclidean plane.

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