Weak Communication in Radio Networks

  • Authors:
  • Tomasz Jurdzinski;Miroslaw Kutylowski;Jan Zatopianski

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • Euro-Par '02 Proceedings of the 8th International Euro-Par Conference on Parallel Processing
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

Quite often algorithms designed for no-collision-detection radio networks use a hidden form of collision detection: it is assumed that a station can simultaneously send and listen. Then, if it cannot hear its own message, then apparently a collision has occurred. IEEE Standard 802.11 says that a station can either send or listen to a radio channel, but not both. So we consider a weak radio network model with no collision detection where a station can either send or receive signals. Otherwise we talk about strong model.We show that power of weak and strong radio networks differ substantially in deterministic case. On the other hand, we present an efficient simulation of strong by weak ones, with randomized preprocessing of O(n) steps and O(log log n) energy cost.