Monitoring churn in wireless networks

  • Authors:
  • Stephan Holzer;Yvonne Anne Pignolet;Jasmin Smula;Roger Wattenhofer

  • Affiliations:
  • Computer Engineering and Networks Laboratory, ETH Zurich, Switzerland;IBM Research, Zurich Research Laboratory, Switzerland;Computer Engineering and Networks Laboratory, ETH Zurich, Switzerland;Computer Engineering and Networks Laboratory, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

  • Venue:
  • ALGOSENSORS'10 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Algorithms for sensor systems, wireless adhoc networks, and autonomous mobile entities
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

Wireless networks often experience a significant amount of churn, the arrival and departure of nodes. In this paper we propose a distributed algorithm for single-hop networks that detects churn and is resilient to a worst-case adversary. The nodes of the network are notified about changes quickly, in asymptotically optimal time up to an additive logarithmic overhead. We establish a trade-off between saving energy and minimizing the delay until notification for single- and multi-channel networks.