Succinct Greedy Graph Drawing in R

In greedy geometric routing, messages are passed in a network embedded in a metric space according to the greedy strategy of always forwarding messages to nodes that are closer to the destination. We show that greedy graph drawing schemes exist for the Euclidean metric in R, for 3-connected planar graphs, with coordinates that can be represented succinctly, that is, with O(log n) bits. Moreover, our embedding strategy introduces a coordinate system for R that supports distance comparisons using our succinct coordinates. Thus, our scheme can be used to significantly reduce bandwidth, space, and header size over other recently discovered greedy geometric routing implementations for R.