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Range Assignment for High Connectivity <strong>in</strong> Wireless Ad Hoc Networks 2370.5 0.5 110.50.50.50.51(a) (b) (c)Fig. 2. Asymmetric topology may have higher connectivity than symmetric topology.(a). The nodes lie <strong>in</strong> a regular hexagon of side equal to one, and their transmissionranges are given beside the nodes. (b) The asymmetric topology is connected. (c). Thesymmetric topology is disconnected.(resp., k-edge) connected. For k = 1, edge and node connectivity are identicalto each other, and thus are simply referred to as connectivity. For k = 2, 2-nodeconnectivity is simply referred to as biconnectivity, and 2-edge connectivity issimply referred to as edge-biconnectivity. With the same transmission ranges, theasymmetric connectivity is always not lower than the symmetric connectivity. Ifthe transmission ranges are not identical, the asymmetric connectivity may behigher than the symmetric connectivity. Figure 2 shows an example <strong>in</strong> which theasymmetric topology is connected but the symmetric topology is disconnected.The network consists of n<strong>in</strong>e nodes ly<strong>in</strong>g on a regular hexagon of side equal toone, with six nodes at the vertices of the hexagon and the other three nodes atthe midpo<strong>in</strong>ts of three alternate sides of the hexagon. Three alternate nodes atthe vertices have transmission range of one, and all others have the transmissionrange of one half. The asymmetric topology is connected, but the symmetrictopology is not. On the other hand, if all nodes have the same transmissionrange, the asymmetric topology and the symmetric topology always have thesame connectivity.The requirement on the network connectivity (either asymmetric or asymmetric)imposes a constra<strong>in</strong>t on the transmission ranges of all nodes. A crucialissue is how to f<strong>in</strong>d a range assignment of the smallest total power to meet a specifiedconnectivity requirement. The M<strong>in</strong>-Power Symmetric (resp., Asymmetric)k-Node Connectivity problem seeks a range assignment of m<strong>in</strong>imum total powersubject to the constra<strong>in</strong>t the <strong>in</strong>duced symmetric (resp. asymmetric) topology isk-connected. Similarly, the M<strong>in</strong>-Power Symmetric (resp., Asymmetric) k-EdgeConnectivity problem seeks a range assignment of m<strong>in</strong>imum total power subjectto the constra<strong>in</strong>t the <strong>in</strong>duced symmetric (resp., asymmetric) topology is k-edgeconnected. Clearly, the smallest total power for asymmetric k-node (resp., edge)connectivity is no more than the smallest total power for symmetric k-node(resp., edge) connectivity.The study of the M<strong>in</strong>-Power Asymmetric Connectivity problem was started<strong>by</strong> Chen and Huang [5], who gave a 2-approximation algorithm based on m<strong>in</strong>i-

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