Oblivious interference scheduling

Alexander Fanghänel, Thomas Kesselheim, Harald Räcke, Berthold Vöcking

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Abstract

In the interference scheduling problem, one is given a set of n communication requests described by pairs of points from a metric space. The points correspond to devices in a wireless network. In the directed version of the problem, each pair of points consists of a dedicated sending and a dedicated receiving device. In the bidirectional version the devices within a pair shall be able to exchange signals in both directions. In both versions, each pair must be assigned a power level and a color such that the pairs in each color class (representing pairs communicating in the same time slot) can communicate simultaneously at the specified power levels. The feasibility of simultaneous communication within a color class is defined in terms of the Signal to Interference Plus Noise Ratio (SINR) that compares the strength of a signal at a receiver to the sum of the strengths of other signals. This is commonly referred to as the "physical model" and is the established way of modelling interference in the engineering community. The objective is to minimize the number of colors as this corresponds to the time needed to schedule all requests. We study oblivious power assignments in which the power value of a pair only depends on the distance between the points of this pair. We prove that oblivious power assignments cannot yield approximation ratios better than Ω(n) for the directed version of the problem, which is the worst possible performance guarantee as there is a straightforward algorithm that achieves an O(n)-approximation. For the bidirectional version, however, we can show the existence of a universally good oblivious power assignment: For any set of n bidirectional communication requests, the so-called "square root assignment" admits a coloring with at most polylog(n) times the minimal number of colors. The proof for the existence of this coloring is non-constructive. We complement it by an approximation algorithm for the coloring problem under the square root assignment. This way, we obtain the first polynomial time algorithm with approximation ratio polylog(n) for interference scheduling in the physical model.

OriginalspracheEnglisch
TitelPODC'09 - Proceedings of the 2009 ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing
Seiten220-229
Seitenumfang10
DOIs
PublikationsstatusVeröffentlicht - 2009
Extern publiziertJa
Veranstaltung2009 ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing, PODC'09 - Calgary, AB, Kanada
Dauer: 10 Aug. 200912 Aug. 2009

Publikationsreihe

NameProceedings of the Annual ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing

Konferenz

Konferenz2009 ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing, PODC'09
Land/GebietKanada
OrtCalgary, AB
Zeitraum10/08/0912/08/09

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