TY - GEN
T1 - Probabilistic network formation through coverage and freeze-tag
AU - Meisner, Eric
AU - Yang, Wei
AU - Isler, Volkan
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - We address the problem of propagating a piece of information among robots scattered in an environment. Initially, a single robot has the information. This robot searches for other robots to pass it along. When a robot is discovered, it can participate in the process by searching for other robots. Since our motivation for studying this problem is to form an ad-hoc network, we call it the Network Formation Problem. In this paper, we study the case where the environment is a rectangle and the robots' locations are unknown but chosen uniformly at random.We present an efficient network formation algorithm, Stripes, and show that its expected performance is within a logarithmic factor of the optimal performance.We also compare Stripes with an intuitive network formation algorithm in simulations. The feasibility of Stripes is demonstrated with a proof-of-concept implementation.
AB - We address the problem of propagating a piece of information among robots scattered in an environment. Initially, a single robot has the information. This robot searches for other robots to pass it along. When a robot is discovered, it can participate in the process by searching for other robots. Since our motivation for studying this problem is to form an ad-hoc network, we call it the Network Formation Problem. In this paper, we study the case where the environment is a rectangle and the robots' locations are unknown but chosen uniformly at random.We present an efficient network formation algorithm, Stripes, and show that its expected performance is within a logarithmic factor of the optimal performance.We also compare Stripes with an intuitive network formation algorithm in simulations. The feasibility of Stripes is demonstrated with a proof-of-concept implementation.
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-00312-7_1
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-00312-7_1
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:77949870922
SN - 9783642003110
T3 - Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics
SP - 3
EP - 17
BT - Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics VIII - Selected Contributions of the Eighth International Workshop on the Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics
T2 - 8th International Workshop on the Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics, WAFR
Y2 - 7 December 2008 through 9 December 2008
ER -