Time-efficient randomized multiple-message broadcast in radio networks

Majid Khabbazian, Dariusz R. Kowalski

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Abstract

Multiple-message broadcast, or k-broadcast, is one of the fundamental problems in network communication. In short, there are k packets distributed across the network, each of them has to be delivered to all other nodes. We consider this task in the model of multi-hop radio network, in which n nodes interact by transmitting and receiving messages. A message transmitted at a round reaches all neighbors of the transmitter at the end of the same round, but may not be successfully received by some, or even all, of these neighbors. More specifically, a node receives a message at a round if this is the only message that has reached this node in this round. Due to this specific interference-prone nature of radio networks, many communication tasks become more challenging and more costly than in other types of networks, especially in ad-hoc setting in which each node knows only its own id and linear estimates on the basic network parameters, such as the number of nodes n, diameter D and maximum node degree Δ. We design a new randomized k-broadcast algorithm combining the bestof two worlds: efficient randomized transmission schedules and network coding. We show that our algorithm accomplishes multi-broadcast in O(log Δ) amortized number of communication rounds per packet, with high probability. This improves over the best previous solution of Bar-Yehuda, Israeli and Itai, which guarantees only O(log Δ log n) of amortized number of rounds per packet, with high probability.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationPODC'11 - Proceedings of the 2011 ACM Symposium Principles of Distributed Computing
Pages373-379
Number of pages7
DOIs
StatePublished - 2011
Externally publishedYes
Event30th Annual ACM SIGACT-SIGOPS Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing, PODC'11, Held as Part of the 5th Federated Computing Research Conference, FCRC - San Jose, CA, United States
Duration: Jun 6 2011Jun 8 2011

Publication series

NameProceedings of the Annual ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing

Conference

Conference30th Annual ACM SIGACT-SIGOPS Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing, PODC'11, Held as Part of the 5th Federated Computing Research Conference, FCRC
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CitySan Jose, CA
Period6/6/116/8/11

Keywords

  • multiple-message broadcast
  • radio networks
  • randomized algorithm

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Software
  • Hardware and Architecture
  • Computer Networks and Communications

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