Optimising Channel Assignment To Prevent Flow Starvation and Improve Fairness For Planning Single Radio WMNs In Built Environments
Abstract
Wireless mesh networks (WMNs) have many attractive characteristics, such as auto-configuration, self-management, and self-healing. With newer and farther reaching applications being developed in built environments, such as smart grids and intelligent transportation systems, users expect high quality of service and thus fairness is an important issue to be addressed. Channel assignment (CA) is the mechanism for allocating radio resources to the nodes and therefore plays a key role in managing fairness in WMNs. Fairness in WMNs depends on how wireless resources are allocated among the nodes. We examine interference models used in existing CA algorithms and find that CA algorithms using these models yield poor fairness because they only reflect local interference between a link and its interfering links. However, flow star- vation is due to network wide interference (i.e. global) involving border links and middle links. We propose a novel anti-starvation channel assignment al- gorithm (ASCA) for planning single radio WMN. Such ASCA algorithm lever- ages a new interference model that takes into account both local and global interference. Simulation results show the ASCA algorithm effectively allevi- ates flow starvation and improves fairness up to 62% compared with the best result from clique-based CA benchmarks. To the best of our knowledge, the proposed ASCA is the first one to optimise CA algorithms with consideration of both local and global interference.
Authors
Ying Qu, Brian Ng, Michael HomerPublished in
Computer Networks (COMNET), 2017The final copy of this publication is available from the publisher.
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