The Complexity of Optimal Addressing in Radio Networks

We consider the complexity of finding optimal fixed- or variable-length unambiguous address codes for the nodes of a packet radio network. For fixed-length codes this problem is proved to be NP-complete, and its complexity for variable-length codes is still unknown. Some suboptimal heuristic algorithms are proposed.

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