Distributed and Dynamic Voronoi Overlays for Coverage Detection and Distributed Hash Tables in Ad-Hoc Networks

  • Authors:
  • Bogdan Carbunar;Ananth Grama;Jan Vitek

  • Affiliations:
  • Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN;Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN;Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN

  • Venue:
  • ICPADS '04 Proceedings of the Parallel and Distributed Systems, Tenth International Conference
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

In this paper we study two important problems - coverage-boundarydetection and implementing distributed has tables inad-hoc wireless networks.These problems frequently arise in servicelocation and relocation in wireless networks.For the centralizedcoverage-boundary problem we prove a 驴(n log n) lowerbound for n devices.We show that both problems can be effectivelyreduced to the problem of computing Voronoi overlays, andmaintaining these overlays dynamically.Since the computation ofVoronoi diagrams requires O(n log n) time, our solution is optimalfor the computation of the coverage-boundary.We present efficientdistributed algorithms for computing and dynamically maintainingVoronoi overlays, and prove the stability properties for thelatter - i.e., if the nodes stop moving, the overlay stabilizes to thecorrect Voronoi overlay.Finally, we present experimental resultsin the context of the two selected applications, which validate theperformance of our distributed and dynamic algorithms.