In this paper, we study the minimum energy multicast/broadcast problem with reception cost in wireless sensor networks. Suppose there are n sensors in the network. Each node v has l(v) transmission power levels to cho...
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In this paper, we study the minimum energy multicast/broadcast problem with reception cost in wireless sensor networks. Suppose there are n sensors in the network. Each node v has l(v) transmission power levels to choose and its reception cost is B(v) if it receives a message. The problem of our concern is: given a multicast (broadcast) request, how to find a multicast (broadcast) tree such that the total energy cost of the multicast tree including transmitting cost and reception cost is minimized. There are two cases for reception cost: one is that for any node v, the reception cost of v only relies on v itself and is irrelevant with its transmitting node, the other is that the reception cost of v relies on not only itself but also its transmitting node. For the first case, we firstly propose a general approximation algorithm MEB-R-G for the broadcast problem. Moreover, for the multicast problem, we propose a general algorithm MEM-R-G and prove its approximation ratio, we also present a greedy algorithm. For the second case, we also propose a general approximation algorithm MEM-RT-G, and prove its approximation ratio. (C) 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
In this paper, we study the problem Min-Max 2-Cluster Editing which asks for a modification of a given graph into two maximal cliques by inserting or deleting edges such that the maximum number k of the editing edges ...
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In this paper, we study the problem Min-Max 2-Cluster Editing which asks for a modification of a given graph into two maximal cliques by inserting or deleting edges such that the maximum number k of the editing edges incident to any vertex is minimized. We show the NP-hardness of the problem and present a polynomial-time algorithm when k < n/4, in which n is number of vertices. In addition, we design a 2-approximation algorithm and a branching algorithm for finding an optimal solution. By experiments on random graphs, we show that the exact algorithm is much more efficient than a trivial one.
We consider two graph optimization problems called vector domination and total vector domination. In vector domination one seeks a small subset S of vertices of a graph such that any vertex outside S has a prescribed ...
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We consider two graph optimization problems called vector domination and total vector domination. In vector domination one seeks a small subset S of vertices of a graph such that any vertex outside S has a prescribed number of neighbors in S. In total vector domination, the requirement is extended to all vertices of the graph. We prove that these problems (and several variants thereof) cannot be approximated to within a factor of c In n, where c is a suitable constant and n is the number of the vertices, unless P=NP. We also show that two natural greedy strategies have approximation factors In Delta + 0(1), where Delta is the maximum degree of the input graph. We also provide exact polynomial time algorithms for several classes of graphs. Our results extend, improve, and unify several results previously known in the literature. (C) 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Constructing Haar wavelet synopses with guaranteed maximum error on data approximations has many real world applications. In this paper, we take a novel approach towards constructing unrestricted Haar wavelet synopses...
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Constructing Haar wavelet synopses with guaranteed maximum error on data approximations has many real world applications. In this paper, we take a novel approach towards constructing unrestricted Haar wavelet synopses under maximum error metrics (L (a)). We first provide two linear time (logN)-approximation algorithms which have space complexities of O(logN) and O(N) respectively. These two algorithms have the advantage of being both simple in structure and naturally adaptable for stream data processing. Unlike traditional approaches for synopses construction that rely heavily on examining wavelet coefficients and their summations, the proposed methods are very compact and scalable, and sympathetic for online data processing. We then demonstrate that this technique can be extended to other findings such as Haar(+) tree. Extensive experiments indicate that these techniques are highly practical. The proposed algorithms achieve a very attractive tradeoff between efficiency and effectiveness, surpassing contemporary (logN)-approximation algorithms in compressing qualities.
Consider a rooted directed acyclic graph G = (V, E) with root r, representing a collection V of web pages connected via a set E of hyperlinks. Each node v is associated with the probability that a user wants to access...
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Consider a rooted directed acyclic graph G = (V, E) with root r, representing a collection V of web pages connected via a set E of hyperlinks. Each node v is associated with the probability that a user wants to access the node v. The access cost is defined as the expected number of steps required to reach a node from the root r. A bookmark is an additional shortcut from r to a node of G, which may reduce the access cost. The bookmark assignment problem is to find a set of bookmarks that achieves the greatest improvement in the access cost. For the problem, the paper shows the tight bound on the (in)approximability under the assumption P not equal N P: we present a polynomial time approximation algorithm with factor (1 - 1/e), and show that there exists no polynomial time approximation algorithm with a better constant factor than (1 - 1/e) unless P = N P. (c) 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Bounding node-to-sink latency is an important issue of wireless sensor networks (WSNs) with a quality of service requirement. This paper proposes to deploy multiple sinks to control the worst case node-to-sink data la...
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Bounding node-to-sink latency is an important issue of wireless sensor networks (WSNs) with a quality of service requirement. This paper proposes to deploy multiple sinks to control the worst case node-to-sink data latency in WSNs. The end-to-end latency in multihop wireless networks is known to be proportional to the hop length of the routing path that the message moves over. Therefore, we formulate the question of what is the minimum number of sinks and their locations to bound the latency as the minimum d-hop sink placement problem. We also consider its capacitated version. We show problems are NP-hard in unit disk graph (UDG) and unit ball graph, and propose constant factor approximations of the problems in both graph models. We further extend our algorithms so that they can work well in more realistic quasi UDG model. A simulation study is also conducted to see the average performance of our algorithms.
In recent years, OFDMA relay networks have become a key component in the 4G standards (e. g., IEEE 802.16j, 3GPP LTE-Advanced) for broadband wireless access. When numerous bidirectional flows pass through the relay st...
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In recent years, OFDMA relay networks have become a key component in the 4G standards (e. g., IEEE 802.16j, 3GPP LTE-Advanced) for broadband wireless access. When numerous bidirectional flows pass through the relay stations in an OFDMA relay network that supports various interactive applications, plenty of network coding opportunities arise and can be leveraged to enhance the throughput. In this paper, we study the proportional-fair scheduling problem in the presence of network coding in OFDMA relay networks. Considering the tradeoff between performance and overhead, we propose two models, global approach (GA) and local approach (LA), under which the corresponding problems are shown both NP-hard. For the GA model, we show that it cannot be approximated within some constant factor. Hence, we propose a heuristic algorithm with low time complexity. For the LA model, we propose a theoretical polynomial time approximation scheme (PTAS), and also present a practical greedy algorithm with approximation factor of 1/2. Simulation results show that our algorithms can achieve significant throughput improvement over a state-of-the-art noncoding scheme.
Consider the weighted maxmin dispersion problem of locating point(s) in a given region chi subset of R-n that is/are furthest from a given set of m points. The region is assumed to be convex under componentwise squari...
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Consider the weighted maxmin dispersion problem of locating point(s) in a given region chi subset of R-n that is/are furthest from a given set of m points. The region is assumed to be convex under componentwise squaring. We show that this problem is NP-hard even when chi is a box and the weights are equal. We then propose a convex relaxation of this problem for finding an approximate solution and derive an approximation bound of 1-O(root ln(m)gamma*)/2, where gamma* depends on chi. When chi is a box or a product of low-dimensional spheres, gamma* = O(1/n) and the convex relaxation reduces to a semidefinite program and a second-order cone program.
We consider in this article the Two-Machine Cross-Docking Flow Shop Problem, which is a special case of scheduling with typed tasks, where we have two types of tasks and one machine per type. Precedence constraints ex...
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We consider in this article the Two-Machine Cross-Docking Flow Shop Problem, which is a special case of scheduling with typed tasks, where we have two types of tasks and one machine per type. Precedence constraints exist between tasks, but only from a task of the first type to a task of the second type. The precedence relation is thus a directed bipartite graph. Minimizing the makespan is strongly NP-hard even with unit processing times, but any greedy method yields a 2-approximation solution. In this paper, we are interested in establishing new approximability results for this problem. More specifically, we investigate three directions: list scheduling algorithms based on the relaxation of the resources, the decomposition of the problem according to the connected components of the precedence graph, and finally the search of the induced balanced subgraph with a bounded degree. (C) 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
In this paper, we model a vehicular multihop network as an evolving graph and formulate the problem of optimal data dissemination over the network in terms of minimum number of transmissions. We show that the problem ...
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In this paper, we model a vehicular multihop network as an evolving graph and formulate the problem of optimal data dissemination over the network in terms of minimum number of transmissions. We show that the problem belongs to the NP complexity class and provide an easy to implement polynomial-time 2 tau H(Delta)-approximation algorithm, where tau is the number of different subgraphs that comprise the evolving graph, and H(Delta) is the harmonic number of the degree of the evolving graph. By means of applying our heuristic over a vehicular scenario generated by a microscopic road-traffic simulator, we provide some insight into the data dissemination issue. In addition, the proposed algorithm is employed to benchmark a state-of-the-art communication protocol. We hope this paper will inspire more efficient heuristics and data dissemination solutions.
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