Approximate MST for UDG locally

  • Authors:
  • Xiang-Yang Li

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL

  • Venue:
  • COCOON'03 Proceedings of the 9th annual international conference on Computing and combinatorics
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

We consider a wireless network composed of a set of n wireless nodes distributed in a two dimensional plane. The signal sent by a node can be received by all nodes within its transmission region, which is a unit disk centered at this node. The nodes together define a unit disk graph (UDG) with edge uv iff ||uv|| ≤ 1. We present the first localized method to construct a bounded degree planar connected structure for UDG whose total edge length is within a constant factor of the minimum spanning tree. The total communication cost of our method is O(n), and every node only uses its two-hop information to construct such structure. We show that some two-hop information is necessary to construct any low-weighted structure. We also study the application of this structure in efficient broadcasting in wireless ad hoc networks.We prove that this structure uses only O(1/n) of the total energy of the previously best-known light weighted structure RNG.