... Journal on Wireless Communications and NetworkingABCDEFGHIFigure 1: The minimum connected dominating set (MCDS){C, D, F, G} forms a backbone for the sensor network. A packet isforwarded ... connected dominating set (BACDS) for the network in Figure 1 at t= 10 minutes. The ζi(t)foreachnode i is listed above.algorithms for forming a virtual backbone in a sensor net-work, where node ... V.Raghunathan,C.Schurgers,S.Park,andM.B.Srivastava,“Energy-aware wireless microsensor networks,” IEEE SignalProcessing Magazine, vol. 19, no. 2, pp. 40–50, 2002.[25] A. Mainwaring, J. Polastre, R. Szewczyk, D. Culler, and J. An-derson, Wireless sensor...