Tighter Approximation Bounds for Minimum CDS in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks

  • Authors:
  • Minming Li;Peng-Jun Wan;Frances Yao

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, City University of Hong Kong,;Department of Computer Science, Illinois Institute of Technology,;Department of Computer Science, City University of Hong Kong,

  • Venue:
  • ISAAC '09 Proceedings of the 20th International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

Connected dominating set (CDS) has a wide range of applications in wireless ad hoc networks. A number of approximation algorithms for constructing a small CDS in wireless ad hoc networks have been proposed in the literature. The majority of these algorithms follow a general two-phased approach. The first phase constructs a dominating set, and the second phase selects additional nodes to interconnect the nodes in the dominating set. In the performance analyses of these two-phased algorithms, the relation between the independence number 驴 and the connected domination number 驴 c of a unit-disk graph plays the key role. The best-known relation between them is $\alpha\leq3\frac{2}{3}\gamma_{c}+1$. In this paper, we prove that 驴 ≤ 3.4306驴 c + 4.8185. This relation leads to tighter upper bounds on the approximation ratios of two approximation algorithms proposed in the literature.