Network Lifetime and Power Assignment in Ad-Hoc Wireless Networks

Used for topology control in ad-hoc wireless networks, Power Assignment is a family of problems, each defined by a certain connectivity constraint (such as strong connectivity) The input consists of a directed complete weighted graph G = (V; c). The power of a vertex u in a directed spanning subgraph H is given by pH(u) = maxuv2E(H) c(uv). The power of H is given by p(H) = P u2V pH(u), Power Assignment seeks to minimize p(H) while H satisfies the given connectivity constraint. W