New results on the time complexity and approximation ratio of the Broadcast Incremental Power algorithm

  • Authors:
  • Joanna Bauer;Dag Haugland;Di Yuan

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Informatics, University of Bergen, P.B. 7800, 5020 Bergen, Norway;Department of Informatics, University of Bergen, P.B. 7800, 5020 Bergen, Norway;Department of Science and Technology, Linköping University, 60174 Norrköping, Sweden

  • Venue:
  • Information Processing Letters
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

The Broadcast Incremental Power (BIP) algorithm is the most frequently cited method for the minimum energy broadcast routing problem. A recent survey concluded that BIP has O(|V|^3) time complexity, and that its approximation ratio is at least 4.33. We strengthen these results to O(|V|^2) and 4.598, respectively.