Institute for Systems Research Technical Reports

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This archive contains a collection of reports generated by the faculty and students of the Institute for Systems Research (ISR), a permanent, interdisciplinary research unit in the A. James Clark School of Engineering at the University of Maryland. ISR-based projects are conducted through partnerships with industry and government, bringing together faculty and students from multiple academic departments and colleges across the university.

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    Distributed Topology Control for Stable Path Routing in Multi-hop Wireless Networks
    (2010-03) Somasundaram, Kiran; Baras, John; Jain, Kaustubh; Tabatabaee, Vahid
    In this paper, we introduce the stable path topology control problem for routing in mobile multi-hop networks. We formulate the topology control problem of selective link-state broadcast as a graph pruning problem with restricted local neighborhood information. We develop a multi-agent optimiza- tion framework where the decision policies of each agent are restricted to local policies on incident edges and independent of the policies of the other agents. We show that under a condition called the positivity condition, these independent local policies preserve the stable routing paths globally. We then provide an efficient algorithm to compute an optimal local policy that yields a minimal pruned graph, which we call the Stable Path Topology Control (SPTC) algorithm. Using simulations, we demonstrate that this algorithm, when used with the popular ETX metric, outperforms topology control mechanisms commonly used for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks.