A lower bound for radio broadcast

Noga Alon*, Amotz Bar-Noy, Nathan Linial, David Pelegi

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Abstract

A radio network is a synchronous network of processors that communicate by transmitting messages to their neighbors, where a processor receives a message in a given step if and only if it is silent in this step and precisely one of its neighbors transmits. In this paper we prove the existence of a family of radius-2 networks on n vertices for which any broadcast schedule requires at least Ω(log2 n) rounds of transmissions. This matches an upper bound of O(log2 n) rounds for networks of radius 2 proved earlier by Bar-Yehuda, Goldreich, and Itai, in "Proceedings of the 4th ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing, 1986," pp. 98-107.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)290-298
Number of pages9
JournalJournal of Computer and System Sciences
Volume43
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - Oct 1991

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Funding Information:
* Supported in part by an Allon Fellowship, by a Bat-Sheva de Rothschild Grant, and by a Bergmann Memorial Grant. + Supported in part by a Weizmann Fellowship and by Contract ONR NOOOl4-85-C-0731. Current address: IBM, T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY 10598. : Supported in part by Contract ONR NOOOl4-85-C-0731. Current address: The Weizmann Institute, Rehovot 76100, Israel.

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