Abstract. The sensor network localization (SNL) problem in embedding dimension r consists of locating the positions of wireless sensors, given only the distances between sensors that are within radio range and the positions of a subset of the sensors (called anchors). Current solution techniques relax this problem to a weighted, nearest, (positive) semidefinite programming (SDP) completion problem by using the linear mapping between Euclidean distance matrices (EDM) and semidefinite matrices. The resulting SDP is solved using primal-dual interior point solvers, yielding an expensive and inexact solution.This relaxation is highly degenerate in the sense that the feasible set is restricted to a low dimensional face of the SDP cone, implying that the Slater constraint qualification fails. Cliques in the graph of the SNL problem give rise to this degeneracy in the SDP relaxation. In this paper, we take advantage of the absence of the Slater constraint qualification and derive a technique for the SNL problem, with exact data, that explicitly solves the corresponding rank restricted SDP problem. No SDP solvers are used. For randomly generated instances, we are able to efficiently solve many huge instances of this NP-hard problem to high accuracy by finding a representation of the minimal face of the SDP cone that contains the SDP matrix representation of the EDM. The main work of our algorithm consists in repeatedly finding the intersection of subspaces that represent the faces of the SDP cone that correspond to cliques of the SNL problem.Key words. sensor network localization, Euclidean distance matrix completions, semidefinite programming, loss of the Slater constraint qualification AMS subject classifications. 90C35, 90C22, 90C26, 90C06
We study Semidefinite Programming, SDP , relaxations for Sensor Network Localization, SNL, with anchors and with noisy distance information. The main point of the paper is to view SNL as a (nearest) Euclidean Distance Matrix, EDM, completion problem that does not distinguish between the anchors and the sensors. We show that there are advantages for using the well studied EDM model. In fact, the set of anchors simply corresponds to a given fixed clique for the graph of the EDM problem.We next propose a method of projection when large cliques or dense subgraphs are identified. This projection reduces the size, and improves the stability, of the relaxation. In addition, by viewing the problem as an EDM completion problem, we are able to derive a new approximation scheme for the sensors from the SDP approximation. This yields, on average, better low rank approximations for the low dimensional realizations. This further emphasizes the theme that SNL is in fact just an EDM problem.We solve the SDP relaxations using a primal-dual interior/exterior-point algorithm based on the Gauss-Newton search direction. By not restricting iterations to the interior, we usually get lower rank optimal solutions and thus, better approximations for the SNL problem. We discuss the relative stability and strength of two formulations and the corresponding algorithms that are used. In particular, we show that the quadratic formulation arising from the SDP relaxation is better conditioned than the linearized form that is used in the literature.
To cite this version:Nathan Krislock, Jérôme Malick, Frédéric Roupin. Improved semidefinite bounding procedure for solving Max-Cut problems to optimality. Mathematical Programming, Springer Verlag, 2014, 143 (1-2), pp.61-86. <10.1007/s10107-012-0594-z>.
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