Journal of Information Processing
Online ISSN : 1882-6652
ISSN-L : 1882-6652
Gossiping with Interference Constraints in Radio Chain Networks
Jean-Claude BermondTakako KodateJoseph Yu
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2020 Volume 28 Pages 889-902

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In this paper, we study the problem of gossiping with neighboring interference constraint in radio chain networks. Gossiping (also called total exchange information) is a protocol where each node in the network has a message and is expected to distribute its own message to every other node in the network. The gossiping problem consists in finding the minimum running time (makespan) of a gossiping protocol and efficient algorithms that attain this makespan. We focus on the case where the transmission network is a chain (directed path or line) network. We consider synchronous protocols where it takes one unit of time (step) to transmit a unit-length message. During one step, a node receives at most one message only through one of its two neighbors. We assume that during one step, a node cannot be both a sender and a receiver (half duplex model). Moreover we have neighboring interference constraints under which a node cannot receive a message if one of its neighbors is sending. A round consists of a set of non-interfering (or compatible) calls and uses one step. We completely solve the gossiping problem for Pn, the chain network on n nodes, and give an algorithm that completes the gossiping in 3n - 5 rounds (for n > 3), which is exactly the makespan.

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