Geometric Spanners for Wireless Ad Hoc Networks

  • Authors:
  • Yu Wang;Xiang-Yang Li

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • ICDCS '02 Proceedings of the 22 nd International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS'02)
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

We propose a new geometric spanner, for wireless ad hoc networks, which can be constructed efficiently in a distributed manner. It combines the connected dominating set and the local Delaunay graph to form the backbone of wireless network. This new spanner has these following attractive properties: (1) the backbone is a planar graph;(2) the node degree of the backbone is bounded from above by a positive constant;(3) it is a spanner both for hops and length; moreover, we show that, given any two nodes u and v, there is a path connecting them in the backbone such that its length is no more than 6 times of the shortestpath and the number of links is no more than 3 times of the shortest path;(4) it can beconstructed locally and is easy to maintain when the nodes move around;(5) moreover, we show that the computation cost of each node is at most O(d log d), whered is its 1-hop neighbors in the original unit disk graph, and the communication cost of each node is bounded by a constant. Simulation results are also presented for studying its practical performance.