Finding optimal paths in MREP routing

Maximum Residual Energy Path (MREP) routing has been shown an effective routing scheme for energy conservation in battery powered wireless networks. Past studies on MREP routing are based on the assumption that the transmitting node consumes power, but the receiving node does not. This assumption is false if acknowledgment is required as occurs, for example, in some Bluetooth applications.If the receiving node does not consume power then the MREP routing problem for a single message is easily solvable in polynomial time using a simple Dijkstra-like algorithm. We further show in that when the receiving node does consume power the problem becomes NP-complete and is even impossible to approximate with an exponential approximation factor in polynomial time unless P = NP.

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