Critical communication radius for sink connectivity in wireless networks

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Abstract

Inspired by the thermodynamic limit in random geometric graphs, we propose a notion of sink connectivity for wireless networks. The sink connectivity, denoted Cn? is defined as the fraction of nodes in the network that are connected to the sink. We will show in this paper that if n nodes are randomly placed in a disc of area A and each node's radius chosen as rn =√Ad/(πn), then the resulting network satisfies Cn→P 1 as n → ∞ if and only if d √∞ co, Simulation results show that if we tolerate a very small fraction of the nodes being isolated from the network, the communication cost can be considerably reduced. The cases in more practical connection models are also explored.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication45th Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing 2007
PublisherUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Coordinated Science Laboratory and Department of Computer and Electrical Engineering
Pages224-227
Number of pages4
ISBN (Electronic)9781605600864
StatePublished - 2007
Externally publishedYes
Event45th Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing 2007 - Monticello, United States
Duration: 26 Sep 200728 Sep 2007

Publication series

Name45th Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing 2007
Volume1

Conference

Conference45th Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing 2007
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityMonticello
Period26/09/0728/09/07

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