New for: D1
many application scenarios the network nodes have only a limited energy supply, hence minimizing the energy consumption of any communication task prolongs the lifetime of the network
In this talk we consider a constrained broadcast operation, where a
source node wants to send a message to all other nodes in the network
but at most k nodes are allowed to participate actively.
For the case of network nodes embedded in the Euclidean plane we provide an O(1)-approximation algorithm with running time linear in the number of nodes and polynomial in k.