Centralized Quasi-Static Channel Assignment for Multi-Radio Multi-Channel Wireless Mesh Networks英文文献资料.docVIP

Wireless Sensor Network, 2009, 2, 61-121 doi:10.4236/wsn.2009.12016 Published Online July 2009 (http://www.SciRP.org/journal/wsn/). Centralized Quasi-Static Channel Assignment for Multi-Radio Multi-Channel Wireless Mesh Networks Juan REN, Zhengding QIU Institute of Information Science, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing, China Email: zdqiu}@ Received February 19, 2009; revised March 19, 2009; accepted March 20, 2009 Abstract Employing multiple channels in wireless multihop networks is regarded as an effective approach to increas- ing network capacity. This paper presents a centralized quasi-static channel assignment for multi-radio multi-channel Wireless Mesh Networks (WMNs). The proposed channel assignment can efficiently utilize multiple channels with only 2 radios equipped on each mesh router. In the scheme, the network end-to-end traffics are first modeled by probing data at wireless access points, and then the traffic load between each pair of neighboring routers is further estimated using an interference-aware estimation algorithm. Having knowledge of the expected link load, the scheme assigns channels to each radio with the objective of mini- mizing network interference, which as a result greatly improves network capacity. The performance evalua- tion shows that the proposed scheme is highly responsive to varying traffic conditions, and the network per- formance under the channel assignment significantly outperforms the single-radio IEEE 802.11 network as well as the 2-radio WMN with static 2 channels. Keywords: Wireless Mesh Networks, Multihop Network, Channel Assignment, Multi-Radio 1. Introduction of wireless networks can be increased. While due to the limited number of channels available, the interference cannot be completely eliminated. In addition, the channel assignment must be restricted to the number of radios on each wireless node. So it’s a challenging problem de- serving our rese