Minimizing Flow Time in the Wireless Gathering Problem

Authors Vincenzo Bonifaci, Peter Korteweg, Alberto Marchetti-Spaccamela, Leen Stougie



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Vincenzo Bonifaci
Peter Korteweg
Alberto Marchetti-Spaccamela
Leen Stougie

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Vincenzo Bonifaci, Peter Korteweg, Alberto Marchetti-Spaccamela, and Leen Stougie. Minimizing Flow Time in the Wireless Gathering Problem. In 25th International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science. Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 1, pp. 109-120, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2008)
https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.STACS.2008.1338

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We address the problem of efficient data gathering in a wireless network through multi-hop communication. We focus on the objective of minimizing the maximum flow time of a data packet. We prove that no polynomial time algorithm for this problem can have approximation ratio less than $Omega(m^{1/3)$ when $m$ packets have to be transmitted, unless $P = NP$. We then use resource augmentation to assess the performance of a FIFO-like strategy. We prove that this strategy is 5-speed optimal, i.e., its cost remains within the optimal cost if we allow the algorithm to transmit data at a speed 5 times higher than that of the optimal solution we compare to.
Keywords
  • Wireless networks
  • data gathering
  • approximation algorithms
  • distributed algorithms

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