Distributed computation of virtual coordinates

  • Authors:
  • Mirela Ben Chen;Craig Gotsman;Camille Wormser

  • Affiliations:
  • Technion, Haifa, Israel;Technion, Haifa, Israel;INRIA: Geometrica Team, Sophia-Antipolis, France

  • Venue:
  • SCG '07 Proceedings of the twenty-third annual symposium on Computational geometry
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

Sensor networks are emerging as a paradigm for future computing, but pose a number of challenges in the fields of networking and distributed computation. One challenge is to devise a greedy routing protocol -- one that routes messages through the network using only information available at a node or its neighbors. Modeling the connectivity graph of a sensor network as a 3-connected planar graph, we describe how to compute on the network in a distributed and local manner a special geometric embedding of the graph. This embedding supports a geometric routing protocol based on the "virtual" coordinates of the nodes derived from the embedding.