Broadcasting in sensor networks of unknown topology in the presence of swamping

  • Authors:
  • Evangelos Kranakis;Michel Paquette

  • Affiliations:
  • School of Computer Science, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada;School of Computer Science, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

  • Venue:
  • SSS'10 Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Stabilization, safety, and security of distributed systems
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

In this paper, we address the problem of broadcasting in a wireless sensor network under a novel communication model: the swamping communication model. In this model, nodes communicate only with those nodes at distance greater than s and at most r from them. We consider networks of unknown topology of diameter D, with a lower bound a on the geometric distance between nodes and a parameter g = 1/α (granularity). We present broadcast algorithms for networks of nodes placed on the line and on the plane with respective time complexities O(D/l + g2) and O(Dg/l + g4), where l ∈ Θ(max{(1 - s), α}).