Local Construction of Connected Plane Subgraphs in Graphs Satisfying Redundancy and Coexistence

Abstract

Connected plane graphs enable many local algorithmic solutions for data communication, task coordination and network maintenance in wireless sensor networks, sensor-actuator networks and distributed robotics. We study construction of such graphs by removing edges from a given network graph. We assume redundancy and coexistence, a graph structure which holds in realistic wireless network models with high probability and which assures that a connected plane graph can always be constructed with local edge removal rules. We present a local algorithm to construct such a connected plane graph. We prove algorithm correctness under redundancy and coexistence assumption. Furthermore, we discuss how far redundancy and coexistence could be weakened while still assuring correctness of the algorithm.