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We study scenarios where mobile hubs are charged with building a communication bridge between two given points s and t. We introduce a new bi-criteria optimization problem where the objectives are minimizing the number of hubs on the bridge and either the maximum or the total distance traveled by the hubs. For a geometric version of the problem where the hubs must move onto the line segment [s,t], we present algorithms which achieve the minimum number of hubs while remaining within a constant factor of a given motion constraint.
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Tekdas, O., Kumar, Y., Isler, V., Janardan, R. (2009). Building a Communication Bridge with Mobile Hubs. In: Dolev, S. (eds) Algorithmic Aspects of Wireless Sensor Networks. ALGOSENSORS 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5804. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-05434-1_19
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