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The Optimal Design of Low-Latency Virtual Backbones

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  • Hamidreza Validi

    (School of Industrial Engineering and Management, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma 74078)

  • Austin Buchanan

    (School of Industrial Engineering and Management, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma 74078)

Abstract

Two nodes of a wireless network may not be able to communicate with each other directly, perhaps because of obstacles or insufficient signal strength. This necessitates the use of intermediate nodes to relay information. Often, one designates a (preferably small) subset of them to relay these messages (i.e., to serve as a virtual backbone for the wireless network), which can be seen as a connected dominating set (CDS) of the associated graph. Ideally, these communication paths should be short, leading to the notion of a latency-constrained CDS. In this paper, we point out several shortcomings of a previously studied formalization of a latency-constrained CDS and propose an alternative one. We introduce an integer programming formulation for the problem that has a variable for each node and imposes the latency constraints via an exponential number of cut-like inequalities. Two nice properties of this formulation are that (1) it applies when distances are hop-based and when they are weighted and (2) it easily generalizes to ensure fault tolerance. We provide a branch-and-cut implementation of this formulation and compare it with a new polynomial-size formulation. Computational experiments demonstrate the superiority of the cut-like formulation. We also study related questions from computational complexity, such as approximation hardness, and answer an open problem regarding the fault diameter of graphs.

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  • Hamidreza Validi & Austin Buchanan, 2020. "The Optimal Design of Low-Latency Virtual Backbones," INFORMS Journal on Computing, INFORMS, vol. 32(4), pages 952-967, October.
  • Handle: RePEc:inm:orijoc:v:32:y:4:i:2020:p:952-967
    DOI: 10.1287/ijoc.2019.0914
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