Min-energy Broadcast in Fixed-trajectory Mobile Ad-hoc Networks
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J.M. Díaz Ibáñez [1]
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R. Fabila Monroy
[2]
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D. Flores Peñaloza
[2]
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M.A. Heredia
[2]
;
J. Urrutia
[2]
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[1] Universidad de Sevilla
Universidad de Sevilla
Sevilla, España
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[2] Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
México
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- Localización: XIII Encuentros de Geometría Computacional: Zaragoza, del 29 de junio al 1 de julio de 2009 / coord. por Alfredo García Olaverri , Javier Tejel Altarriba , 2009, ISBN 978-84-92774-11-1, págs. 75-82
- Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
This paper concerns about mobile ad-hoc wireless networks, but with the added restriction that each radio station has a rectilinear trajectory. We focus on the problem of computing an optimal range assignment for the stations, which allows to perform a broadcast operation from a source station, while the overall energy deployed is minimized. An O(n3 log n)-time algorithm for this problem is presented, under the assumption that all stations have equally sized transmission ranges. However, we prove that the general version of the problem is NP-hard, and it is not approximable within a sub-logarithmic factor (unless P=NP). We then consider a special case of the general problem (also NP-hard), and present an approximation algorithm whose approximation factor is (ln n + 1)m, where m is the size of the optimum solution.
