Minimizing interference in ad-hoc networks with bounded communication radius

  • Authors:
  • Matias Korman

  • Affiliations:
  • Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Brussels, Belgium

  • Venue:
  • ISAAC'11 Proceedings of the 22nd international conference on Algorithms and Computation
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

We consider a topology control problem in which we are given a set of n sensors in ℝd and we would like to assign a communication radius to each of them. The radii assignment must generate a strongly connected network and have low receiver-based interference (defined as the largest in-degree of the network). We give an algorithm that generates a network with O(logΔ) interference, where Δ is the interference of a uniform-radius network. Since the radius of each sensor only depends on its neighbors, it can be computed in a distributed fashion. Moreover, this construction will never assign communication radius larger than Rmin to a sensor, where Rmin is the minimum value needed to obtain strong connectivity. We also show that Ω(logn) interference is needed for some instances, making our algorithms asymptotically optimal.