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Topology Control with Limited Geometric Information (2005)
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| Venue: | IN: PROC. OF THE 9 TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON PRINCIPLES OF DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS (OPODIS |
| Citations: | 3 - 0 self |
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@INPROCEEDINGS{Lillis05topologycontrol,
author = {Kevin Lillis and Sriram V. Pemmaraju},
title = { Topology Control with Limited Geometric Information},
booktitle = {IN: PROC. OF THE 9 TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON PRINCIPLES OF DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS (OPODIS},
year = {2005},
publisher = {}
}
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Abstract
Topology control is the problem of selecting neighbors for each node in a wireless network, so that the resulting network has a number of useful properties. More precisely, a topology control protocol P takes as input a network G and aims to construct a spanning subgraph GP, that is sparse, “energy minimizing ” and has sufficient connectivity so as to guarantee multiple short paths between pairs of nodes in G. Currently, topology control protocols assume that nodes in G reside in some Euclidean (usually, 2-dimensional) space and rely on geometric information such as node locations and pairwise distances between nodes to produce GP with appropriate properties. However, these protocols are extremely sensitive to errors in location information and this feature makes them impractical because errors in location and distance information are pervasive in practical systems. This paper presents and analyzes two randomized topology control protocols that are tolerant to errors in pairwise distance estimates. The first protocol, called RTC (short for randomized topology control) uses no geometric information, relying only on connectivity information and is therefore completely immune to errors in location or distance information. The second protocol, called ε-RTC, generalizes the first protocol. Allowing for errors in distance estimates, but assuming that relative errors are bounded above by ε, the second protocol produces an output network that is symmetric, connected, sparse, and has good spanner properties. As ε → 0, ε-RTC behaves like the XTC protocol (R. Wattenhofer and A. Zollinger, “XTC: A practical topology control algorithm for ad-hoc networks”, WMAN 2004) and for large values of ε, it behaves like RTC. Our results hold whenever the input network is a unit disk graph or even a quasi unit disk graph.
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topology control limited geometric information geometric information first protocol randomized topology control second protocol distance information xtc protocol useful property spanning subgraph gp connectivity information practical topology control algorithm sufficient connectivity input network node location ad-hoc network good spanner property pairwise distance large value unit disk graph distance estimate quasi unit disk graph energy minimizing pairwise distance estimate practical system wireless network multiple short path appropriate property location information relative error output network topology control protocol
