Design and analysis of connected dominating set formation for topology control in wireless ad hoc networks

Abstract

To efficiently manage ad hoc networks, this paper proposes a novel distributed algorithm for connected dominating set (CDS) formation in wireless ad hoc networks with time and message complexity O(n). This Area algorithm partitions the nodes into different areas and selectively connects two dominators that are two or three hops away. Compared with previous well-known algorithms, we confirm the effectiveness of this algorithm through analysis and comprehensive simulation study. The number of nodes in the CDS formed by this Area algorithm is up to around 55% less than that constructed by others.