Abstract:
In this paper, we study the problem of computing quality fault-tolerant virtual backbone in homogeneous wireless network, which is defined as the k-connected m-domina...Show MoreMetadata
Abstract:
In this paper, we study the problem of computing quality fault-tolerant virtual backbone in homogeneous wireless network, which is defined as the k-connected m-dominating set problem in a unit disk graph. This problem is NP-hard, and thus many efforts have been made to find a constant factor approximation algorithm for it, but never succeeded so far with arbitrary k\geq 3 and m\geq 1 pair. We propose a new strategy for computing a smaller-size 3-connected m-dominating set in a unit disk graph with any m\geq 1. We show the approximation ratio of our algorithm is constant and its running time is polynomial. We also conduct a simulation to examine the average performance of our algorithm. Our result implies that while there exists a constant factor approximation algorithm for the k-connected m-dominating set problem with arbitrary k\leq 3 and m\geq 1 pair, the k-connected m-dominating set problem is still open with k>3 .
Published in: IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking ( Volume: 21, Issue: 5, October 2013)