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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 increas