Parameterized complexity of Min-power multicast problems in wireless ad hoc networks

  • Authors:
  • Jianxin Wang;Weizhong Luo;Qilong Feng;Jiong Guo

  • Affiliations:
  • School of Information Science and Engineering, Central South University, Changsha 410083, PR China;School of Information Science and Engineering, Central South University, Changsha 410083, PR China and Hunan Financial & Economic University, Changsha 410205, PR China;School of Information Science and Engineering, Central South University, Changsha 410083, PR China;Universität des Saarlandes, Campus E 1.7, D-66123 Saarbrücken, Germany

  • Venue:
  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

Power assignment in wireless ad hoc networks can be seen as a family of problems in which the task is to find in a given power requirement network a minimum power communication subnetwork that satisfies a given connectivity constraint. These problems have been extensively studied from the viewpoint of approximation, heuristic, linear programming, etc. In this paper, we add a new facet by initiating a systematic parameterized complexity study of three types of power assignment problems related to multicast: Min-power Single-source h-Multicast, Min-power Strongly Connected h-Multicast and Min-power Multi-source h-Multicast. We investigate their parameterized complexities with respect to the number of terminals and the number of senders. We show that a Min-power Single-source h-Multicast is fixed-parameter tractable with respect to the number of terminals and achieve several parameterized hardness results.