Abstract. The paper considers broadcasting protocols in radio networks with known topology that are efficient in both time and energy. The radio network is modelled as an undirected graph G = (V, E) where |V | = n. It is assumed that during execution of the communication task every node in V is allowed to transmit at most once. Under this assumption it is shown that any radio broadcast protocol requires where D is the diameter of G. This lower bound is complemented with an efficient construction of a deterministic protocol that accomplishes broadcasting in D + O( √ n log n) rounds. Moreover, if we allow each node to transmit at most k times, the lower bound D + Ω((n − D) 1/(2k) ) on the number of transmission rounds holds. We also provide a randomised protocol that accomplishes broadcasting in D + O(kn 1/(k−2) log 2 n) rounds. The paper concludes with a discussion of several other strategies for energy efficient radio broadcasting and a number of open problems in the area.
Energy efficient broadcast protocols in the related model of multi-hop radio networks was studied e.g., in REF .
Energy and Time Efficient Broadcasting in Known Topology Radio Networks
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