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On the density of sets of the Euclidean plane avoiding distance 1
A subset is said to avoid distance if: In this paper we study the number
which is the supremum of the upper densities of measurable
sets avoiding distance 1 in the Euclidean plane. Intuitively, represents the highest proportion of the plane that can be filled by a
set avoiding distance 1. This parameter is related to the fractional chromatic
number of the plane.
We establish that and .Comment: 11 pages, 5 figure
Algorithms for Fast Aggregated Convergecast in Sensor Networks
Fast and periodic collection of aggregated data
is of considerable interest for mission-critical and continuous
monitoring applications in sensor networks. In the many-to-one
communication paradigm, referred to as convergecast, we focus
on applications wherein data packets are aggregated at each hop
en-route to the sink along a tree-based routing topology, and
address the problem of minimizing the convergecast schedule
length by utilizing multiple frequency channels. The primary
hindrance in minimizing the schedule length is the presence of
interfering links. We prove that it is NP-complete to determine
whether all the interfering links in an arbitrary network can
be removed using at most a constant number of frequencies.
We give a sufficient condition on the number of frequencies for
which all the interfering links can be removed, and propose a
polynomial time algorithm that minimizes the schedule length
in this case. We also prove that minimizing the schedule length
for a given number of frequencies on an arbitrary network is
NP-complete, and describe a greedy scheme that gives a constant
factor approximation on unit disk graphs. When the routing tree
is not given as an input to the problem, we prove that a constant
factor approximation is still achievable for degree-bounded trees.
Finally, we evaluate our algorithms through simulations and
compare their performance under different network parameters
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