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Our objective in this paper is to design topology control algorithms such that (i) nodes have low degree and (ii) paths in the network have few hops. Low node degree is desirable in networks equipped with smart antennas and to reduce access contention. Short paths are desirable for minimizing communication delays and for better robustness to channel impairments and to mobility. Given any arbitrary...