• Journal of KIISE:Information Networking
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• v.34 no.3
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• pp.226-238
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• 2007

In this paper, we present a novel fully distributed topology control protocol that can construct the multiple-ring topology of Minimal Connected Dominating Set (MCDS) as the transport backbone for mobile ad hoc networks. It makes a topology from the minimal nodes that are chosen from all the nodes, and the constructed topology is comprised of the minimal physical links while preserving connectivity. This topology reduces the interference. The all nodes work as the nodes of the distributed parallel Boltzmann machine, of which the objective function is consisted of two Boltzmann factors: the link degree and the connection domination degree. To define these Boltzmann factors, we extend the Connected Dominating Set into a fuzzy set, and also define the fuzzy set of nodes by which the multiple-ring topology can be constructed. To construct the transport backbone of the mobile ad hoc network, the proposed protocol chooses the nodes that are the strong members of these two fuzzy sets as the clusterheads. We also ran simulations to provide the quantitative comparison against the related works in terms of the packet loss rate and the energy consumption rate. As a result, we show that the network that is constructed by the proposed protocol has far better than the other ones with respect to the packet loss rate and the energy consumption rate.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.40 no.6
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• pp.1142-1147
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• 2015

As a method to increase the scalability and efficiency of wireless sensor networks, a scheme to construct networks hierarchically has received considerable attention among researchers. Researches on the methods to construct wireless networks hierarchically have been conducted focusing on how to select nodes such that they constitute a backbone network of wireless network. Nodes comprising the backbone network should be connected themselves and can cover other remaining nodes. A problem to find the minimum number of nodes which satisfy these conditions is known as the minimum connected dominating set (MCDS) problem. The MCDS problem is NP-hard, therefore there is no efficient algorithm which guarantee the optimal solutions for this problem at present. In this paper, we propose a novel multi-start local search algorithm to solve the MCDS problem efficiently. For the performance evaluation of the proposed method, we conduct extensive experiments and report the results.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.26 no.4
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• pp.571-581
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• 2022

Wireless sensor networks use the concept of connected dominating sets that can form virtual backbones for effective routing and broadcasting. In this paper, we propose an optimization algorithm that configures a connected dominating sets in order to balance the load of nodes to increase network lifetime and to perform effective routing. The proposed optimization algorithm in this paper uses the metaheuristic method of tabu search algorithm, and is designed to balance the number of dominatees in each dominator in the constituted linked dominance set. By constructing load-balanced connected dominating sets with the proposed algorithm, it is possible to extend the network lifetime by balancing the load of the dominators. The performance of the proposed tabu search algorithm was evaluated the items related to load balancing on the wireless sensor network, and it was confirmed in the performance evaluation result that the performance was superior to the previously proposed method.