This will be the fifteenth in a sequence of matrix theory conferences
held at the Technion since 1984.
pictures from the conference
e.g.
group picture;
... Miroslav Fiedler, Ludwig Elsner, Henry Wolkowicz, Hans Schneider,
Thomas Laffey ...;
Olga Holtz, Avi Berman, Shmuel Friedland
Department of Combinatorics and Optimization, University of Waterloo, Canada
The sensor network localization, SNL, problem consists of locating the positions of ad hoc wireless sensors, given only the distances between sensors that are within radio range and the positions of a subset of the sensors (called anchors). One main point 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. This problem can be relaxed to a weighted, nearest, (positive) semidefinite programming, SDP, completion problem. This relaxation is ill-conditioned in two ways. First, it is, implicitly, highly degenerate in the sense that the feasble set is restricted to a low dimensional face of the SDP cone. This means that the Slater constraint qualification fails. Second, nonuniqueness of the optimal solution results in large sensitivity to small perturbations in the data.
The degeneracy in the SDP arises from cliques in the graph of the SNL problem. In this paper, we take advantage of the absence of the Slater constraint qualification and derive a preprocessing technique that solves the SNL problem, with exact data, by explicitly solving the corresponding SDP problem. We do this by finding explicit representations of the faces of the SDP cone corresponding to intersections of cliques of the SNL problem.
