Maximizing Uniform Multicast Throughput in Multi-Channel Dense Wireless Sensor Networks

摘要

This paper investigates the problem of maximizing uniform multicast throughput (MUMT) for multi-channel dense wireless sensor networks, where all nodes locate within one-hop transmission range and can communicate with each other on multiple orthogonal channels. This kind of networks show wide application in the real world, and maximizing uniform multicast throughput for these networks is worth deep studying. Previous researches have proved MUMT problem is NP-hard. However, previous researches are either hard to implement, or use too many relay nodes to complete the multicast task, and thus incur high overhead or poor performance. To efficiently solve MUMT problem, we adopt the concept of the maximum independent set with the size constraint, and present one novel Single-Broadcast based Multicast algorithm called SBM based on the concept. We prove that SBM algorithm achieves a constant ratio to the theoretical throughput upper bound. Extensive experimental results demonstrate that, SBM performs better than existing work in terms of both the uniform multicast throughput and the total number of transmissions.