Weighted broadcast in linear radio networks

  • Authors:
  • Gautam K. Das;Subhas C. Nandy

  • Affiliations:
  • Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata 700 108, India;Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata 700 108, India

  • Venue:
  • Information Processing Letters
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

The weighted version of the broadcast range assignment problem in ad hoc wireless network is studied. Efficient algorithms are presented for the unbounded and bounded-hop broadcast problems for the linear radio network, where radio stations are placed on a straight line. For the unbounded case of the problem, the proposed algorithm runs in O(n^2) time and using O(n) space, where n is the number of radio stations in the network. For the h-hop broadcast problem, the time and space complexities of our algorithm are O(hn^2logn) and O(hn), respectively. This improves time complexity of the existing results for the same two problems by a factor of n and n^2logn, respectively [C. Ambuhl, A.E.F. Clementi, M.D. Ianni, G. Rossi, A. Monti, R. Silvestri, The range assignment problem in non-homogeneous static ad hoc networks, in: Proc. 18th Int. Parallel and Distributed Precessing Symposium, 2004].