Toreducenetworkburden,theconceptoflocal-bottlenecknode-wasproposed,
andadistributeddetectionalgorithmforlocal-bottlenecknodeswasgiven.Local-bottleneck
nodeshaveasimilareffectonnetworkperformancewithbottlenecknodes,buttheirdetection
ismorepracticable.Especially,toanetworkdeployedinabelt-typearea,itisprovedthatas
longasthewidthoftheareadoesnotexceed 3/2timesofcommunicationradius,one-hop
topologyinformationisenoughtojudgewhetheranodeisabottlenecknode.Theexperimental
resultshowsthatwiththedistributeddetectionalgorithm,theprobabilityforanarbitrarynode
tobecomealocal-bottlenecknodeisonly1/4ofthatforaquasi-bottlenecknodewhenthe
averagenumberofneighbornodesis10,whichimprovesthedetectingaccuracyandreducesthe
costofnetworkmaintenance.