S. Funke, N. Milosavljevic, Infrastructure-Establishment from Scratch in Wireless Ad-Hoc Networks, Proceedings of the 1st IEEE/ACM International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (DCOSS), 354-367, 2005.

Abstract:

We present a distributed, localized and integrated approach for establishing both low-level (i.e. exploration of 1-hop neighbors, interference avoidance) and high-level (a subgraph of the unit-disk graph) infrastructure in wireless sensor networks. More concretely, our proposed scheme constructs a subgraph of the unit-disk graph which is connected, planar and has power stretch factor of 1 (the well-known Gabriel graph intersected with the unit disk-graph) and - most importantly - deals explicitly with the problem of interference between nearby stations. Due to our interleaved approach of constructing low- and high-level infrastructure simultaneously, this results in considerable improvements in running time when applied in dense wireless networks. To substantiate the advantages of our approach, we introduce a novel distribution model inspired by actual sensing applications and analyze our new approach in that framework.

Bibtex:

@inproceedings{fm-ieswahn-05,
   author = {S. Funke and N. Milosavljevic},
   title = {Infrastructure-Establishment from Scratch in Wireless Ad-Hoc Networks},
   booktitle = {Proceedings of the 1st IEEE/ACM International Conference
   on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (DCOSS)},
   pages = {354--367}
   year = {2005}
}