Interference Minimization in Wireless Networks

Abstract

Interference minimization problem in wireless sensor and ad-hoc networks are considered. That is to assign a transmission radius to each node of a network, to make it connected and at the same time to minimize the maximum number of overlapping transmission ranges on each node of a network. Additional means of topology control besides the connectivity is blocking the long line connections at the receiver level. We propose a polynomial time approximation algorithm which finds a connected network with at most $O((opt\ln{n})^{2})$ interference where $opt$ is the minimal interference of the given network of $n$ nodes. The lower bound for this problem, where a general distance function is considered, has been proven to be $O(\ln{n})$. The algorithm is known which finds a network where the maximum interference is bounded by $O(\sqrt{n})$.