Sensor network gossiping or how to break the broadcast lower bound

  • Authors:
  • Martín Farach-Colton;Miguel A. Mosteiro

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ;Department of Computer Science, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ

  • Venue:
  • ISAAC'07 Proceedings of the 18th international conference on Algorithms and computation
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

Gossiping is an important problem in Radio Networks that has been well studied, leading to many important results. Due to strong resouce limitations of sensor nodes, previous solutions are frequently not feasible in Sensor Networks. In this paper, we study the gossiping problem in the restrictive context of Sensor Networks. By exploiting the geometry of sensor node distributions, we present reduced, optimal running time of O(D + Δ) for an algorithm that completes gossiping with high probability in a Sensor Network of unknown topology and adversarial wake-up, where D is the diameter and Δ the maximum degree of the network. Given that an algorithm for gossiping also solves the broadcast problem, our result proves that the classic lower bound of [16] can be broken if nodes are allowed to do preprocessing.