Performance of Distributed Algorithms for Topology Control in Wireless Networks

We try to close the gap between theoretical investigations of wireless network topologies and realistic wireless environments. For point-to-point communication, we examine theoretically well-analyzed sparse graphs, i.e. the Yaograph, the SparsY-graph, and the SymmY-graph. We present distributed algorithms that can be used to build up these graphs in time £¥¤§¦©¨ per node without the use of any geographical positioning system. Our algorithms are based only on local knowledge and local decisions and make use of power control to establish communication links with low energy-cost. We compare these algorithms with respect to congestion, dilation, and energy. For congestion we introduce different measures that allow us to investigate the difference between real-world wireless networks and models less communication at a high level of abstraction. For more realistic simulations we extend our simulation environment SAHNE. We use a realistic transmission model for directed communic...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2003
• Where: IPPS
• Authors: Stefan Rührup, Christian Schindelhauer, Klaus Volbert, Matthias Grünewald
• Keywords: Algorithms, Distributed And Parallel Computing, IPPS 2003, Wireless Network Topologies, Wireless Networks