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Set Covering-based Approximation Algorithm for Delay Constrained Relay Node Placement in Wireless Sensor Networks

Chaofan Ma·Wei Liang·Meng Zheng
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The Delay Constrained Relay Node Placement (DCRNP) problem in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) aims to deploy minimum relay nodes such that for each sensor node there is a path connecting this sensor node to the sink without violating delay constraint. As WSNs are gradually employed in time-critical applications, the importance of the DCRNP problem becomes noticeable. For the NP-hard nature of DCRNP problem, an approximation algorithm-Set-Covering-based Relay Node Placement (SCA) is proposed to solve the DCRNP problem in this paper. The proposed SCA algorithm deploys relay nodes iteratively from sink to the given sensor nodes in hops, i.e., in the $k$th iteration SCA deploys relay nodes at the locations that are $k$ hops apart from the sink. Specifically, in each iteration, SCA first finds the candidate deployment locations located within 1 hop to the relay nodes and sensor nodes, which have already been connected to the sink. Then, a subset of these candidate deployment locations, which can guarantee the existence of paths connecting unconnected sensor nodes to the sink within delay constraint, is selected to deploy relay nodes based on the set covering method. As the iteration of SCA algorithm, the sensor nodes are gradually connected to the sink with satisfying delay constraint. The elaborated analysis of the approximation ratio of SCA algorithm is given out, and we also prove that the SCA is a polynomial time algorithm through rigorous time complexity analysis. To evaluate the performance of the proposed SCA algorithm, extensive simulations are implemented, and the simulation results show that the SCA algorithm can significantly save the deployed relay nodes comparing to the existing algorithms, i.e., at most 31.48% deployed relay nodes can be saved due to SCA algorithm.

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Chaofan Ma, Wei Liang, Meng Zheng. 2015-04-03. Set Covering-based Approximation Algorithm for Delay Constrained Relay Node Placement in Wireless Sensor Networks. https://arxiv.org/abs/1504.00832

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