Algorithmic Aspects of Minimum Energy Edge-Disjoint Paths in Wireless Networks

  • Authors:
  • Markus Maier;Steffen Mecke;Dorothea Wagner

  • Affiliations:
  • Universität Karlsruhe (TH), Germany;Universität Karlsruhe (TH), Germany;Universität Karlsruhe (TH), Germany

  • Venue:
  • SOFSEM '07 Proceedings of the 33rd conference on Current Trends in Theory and Practice of Computer Science
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

The problem of finding kminimum energy, edge-disjoint paths in wireless networks (MEEP) arises in the context of routing and belongs to the class of range assignment problems. A polynomial algorithm which guarantees a factor-k-approximation for this problem has been presented before, but its complexity status was open. In this paper we prove that MEEP is NP-hard and give new lower and upper bounds on the approximation factor of the k-approximation algorithm. For MEEP on acyclic graphs we introduce an exact, polynomial algorithm which is then extended to a heuristic for arbitrary graphs.