k-fault resistance in wireless ad-hoc networks

  • Authors:
  • Hanan Shpungin;Michael Segal

  • Affiliations:
  • Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel;Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel

  • Venue:
  • DIALM-POMC '05 Proceedings of the 2005 joint workshop on Foundations of mobile computing
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

Given a wireless network, we want to assign each node a transmission power, which will enable transmission between any two nodes (via other nodes). Moreover, due to possible faults, we want to have at least k vertex-disjoint paths from any node to any other, where k is some fixed integer, depending on the reliability of the nodes. The goal is to achieve this directed k-connectivity with a minimal overall power assignment. The problem is NP-Hard for any k ≥ 1 already for planar networks. Here we first present an optimal power assignment for uniformly spaced nodes on a line for any k ≥ 1. Based on it, we design an approximation algorithm for linear radio networks with factor min(2,(Δ/δ)α), where Δ and δ are the maximal and minimal distances between adjacent nodes respectively and parameter α ≥ 1 being the distance-power gradient. We then extend it to the weighted version. Finally, we develop an approximation algorithm with factor O(k2), for planar case, which is, to the best of our knowledge, the first non-trivial result for this problem.