Revisiting Topology Control for Multi-Hop Wireless Ad Hoc Networks

This paper revisits the topology control problem for multi-hop wireless ad hoc networks. It accounts for the maximum number of links interfering with each node in the network, which is referred to as the interference load in the paper. Finding a topology with minimum interference load is an NP-complete problem. In this paper, we develop the essential theorems and lemmas for constructing low interference load topologies for wireless ad hoc networks. Based on the theoretical results, we provide the design guidelines for topology construction with low interference load, and propose a polynomial-time solution accordingly. The performance of the proposed mechanism is evaluated via simulations. The results show that the proposed mechanism outperforms existing work in terms of lower interference load even using the maximum transmission power in the generated topology.