Approximate MST for UDG locally

Abstract

We consider a wireless network composed of a set of n wireless nodes distributed in a two dimensional plane. The signal sent by a node can be received by all nodes within its transmission region, which is a unit disk centered at this node. The nodes together define a unit disk graph (UDG) with edge uv iff ∥uv∥ ≤ 1. We present the first localized method to construct a bounded degree planar connected structure for UDG whose total edge length is within a constant factor of the minimum spanning tree. The total communication cost of our method is O(n), and every node only uses its two-hop information to construct such structure. We show that some two-hop information is necessary to construct any low-weighted structure. We also study the application of this structure in efficient broadcasting in wireless ad hoc networks. We prove that this structure uses only O(1/n) of the total energy of the previously best-known light weighted structure RNG. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2003.