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Article Dans Une Revue Discrete Mathematics Année : 2009

Optimal Gathering Protocols on Paths under Interference Constraints

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We study the problem of gathering information from the nodes of a multi-hop radio network into a predefined destination node under reachability and interference constraints. In such a network, a node is able to send messages to other nodes within reception distance, but doing so it might create interference with other communications. Thus, a message can only be properly received if the receiver is reachable from the sender and there is no interference from another message being transmitted simultaneously. The network is modeled as a graph, where the vertices represent the nodes of the network and the edges, the possible communications. The interference constraint is modeled by a fixed integer d?1, which implies that nodes within distance d in the graph from one sender cannot receive messages from another node. In this paper, we suppose that each node has one unit-length message to transmit and, furthermore, we suppose that it takes one unit of time (slot) to transmit a unit-length message and during such a slot we can have only calls which do not interfere (called compatible calls). A set of compatible calls is referred to as a round. We give protocols and lower bounds on the minimum number of rounds for the gathering problem when the network is a path and the destination node is either at one end or at the center of the path. These protocols are shown to be optimal for any d in the first case, and for d=1,2,3,4, in the second case.
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inria-00429084 , version 1 (30-10-2009)

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Jean-Claude Bermond, Ricardo Correa, Min-Li Yu. Optimal Gathering Protocols on Paths under Interference Constraints. Discrete Mathematics, 2009, 309 (18), pp.5574-5587. ⟨inria-00429084⟩
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