Minimizing interference for the highway model in wireless ad-hoc and sensor networks

Abstract

Finding a low-interference connected topology is one of the fundamental problems in wireless ad-hoc and sensor networks. The receiver-centric interference on a node is the number of other nodes whose transmission ranges cover the node. The problem of reducing interference through adjusting the nodes' transmission ranges in a connected network can be formulated as that of connecting the nodes by a spanning tree while minimizing interference. In this paper, we study minimization of the average interference and the maximum interference for the high-way model, where all the nodes are arbitrarily distributed on a line. Two exact algorithms are proposed. One constructs the optimal topology that minimizes the average interference among all the nodes in polynomial time, O(n 3 Δ3), where n is the number of nodes and Δ is the maximum node degree. The other algorithm constructs the optimal topology that minimizes the maximum interference in sub-exponential time, O(n 3Δ O(k)), where is the minimum maximum interference. © 2011 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.