Fine-grained boundary recognition in wireless ad hoc and sensor networks by topological methods

  • Authors:
  • Dezun Dong;Yunhao Liu;Xiangke Liao

  • Affiliations:
  • National University of Defense Technology, Changsha, China;Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China;National University of Defense Technology, Changsha, China

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the tenth ACM international symposium on Mobile ad hoc networking and computing
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

Location-free boundary recognition is crucial and critical for many fundamental network functionalities in wireless ad hoc and sensor networks. Previous designs, often coarse-grained, fail to accurately locate boundaries, especially when small holes exist. To address this issue, we propose a fine-grained boundary recognition approach using connectivity information only. This algorithm accurately discovers inner and outer boundary cycles without using location information. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first design being able to determinately locate all hole boundaries no matter how small the holes are. Also, this distributed algorithm does not rely on high node density. We formally prove the correctness of our design, and evaluate its effectiveness through extensive simulations.