We propose a new Connected Dominating Set (CDS) based algorithm for clustering in Mobile Ad hoc Networks (MANETs). Our algorithm is based on Wu and Li’s [14] algorithm, however we provide significant modifications by considering the degrees of the nodes during marking process and also provide further heuristics to determine the color of a node in the initial phase. We describe, analyze and meas...

Multi-radio multi-channel multi-hop wireless networks have recently received a substantial amount of interest. An important question in multi-radio multi-channel networks is how to perform efficient network-wide broadcast. However, currently almost all broadcasting protocols assume a single-radio single-channel network model. Simply using them in multi-channel environment without careful enhanc...

In this paper, we address the problem of data aggregation scheduling problem to minimize the latency in wireless sensor networks (WSNs). An efficient distributed synchronous aggregation scheduling method is proposed to structure a collision-free schedule for data aggregation in WSNs. By using a connected dominating set (CDS) as an aggregation tree, we implement the synchronous aggregation sched...

In wireless sensor networks, virtual backbone has been proposed as the routing infrastructure to alleviate the broadcasting storm problem and perform some other tasks such as area monitoring. Previous work in this area has mainly focused on how to set up a small virtual backbone for high efficiency, which is modelled as the minimum Connected Dominating Set (CDS) problem. In this paper we consid...

A connected dominating set in a graph is a dominating set of vertices that induces a connected subgraph. We introduce and study the class of connected-domishold graphs, which are graphs that admit non-negative real weights associated to their vertices such that a set of vertices is a connected dominating set if and only if the sum of the corresponding weights exceeds a certain threshold. We sho...

It was a long-standing open problem whether the minimum weight dominating set in unit disk graphs has a polynomial-time constant-approximation. In 2006, Ambühl et al solved this problem by presenting a 72-approximation for the minimum weight dominating set and also a 89-approximation for the minimum weight connected dominating set in unit disk graphs. In this paper, we improve their results by ...

Efficient routing between nodes is the most important challenge in a Mobile Ad Hoc Network (MANET). A Connected Dominating Set (CDS) acts as a virtual backbone for routing in a MANET. Hence, the construction of CDS based on the need and its application play a vital role in the applications of the MANET. The PipeLined Strategic CDS (PLS-CDS) is constructed based on strategy, dynamic diameter and...

Most existing algorithms used for constructing virtual backbones are based on the ideal deterministic network model (DNM) in which any pair of nodes is either fully connected or completely disconnected. Different from DNM, the probabilistic network model (PNM), which presumes that there is a probability to connect and communicate between any pair of nodes, is more suitable to the practice in ma...

A weakly-connected dominating set, W, of a graph, G, is a dominating set such that the subgraph consisting of V (G) and all edges incident with vertices in W is connected. Finding a small weaklyconnected dominating set of a graph has important applications in clustering mobile ad-hoc networks. In this paper we introduce several new randomised greedy algorithms for finding small weakly-connected...

A connected dominating set in a graph is a subset of vertices such that every vertex is either in the subset or adjacent to a vertex in the subset and the subgraph induced by the subset is connected. A minimum-connected dominating set is such a vertex subset with minimum cardinality. An application in ad hoc wireless networks requires the study of the minimum-connected dominating set in unit-di...