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Distributed Channel Assignment Algorithm Based on Traffic Awareness in Wireless Mesh Networks

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Recently, wireless mesh network (WMN) technology recently has been used in various industries. Especially, a number of multi-channel assignment schemes have been presented to improve the throughput of IEEE 802.11-based multi-hop WMN. However, performance of the conventional multi-channel assignment schemes is not enough to satisfy the industry requirements. We, thus, should study more about the multi-channel assignment scheme in order to enhance the performance. This paper proposes a novel channel assignment scheme that employs multi-channel and multi-Interface in the WMN. The proposed scheme obtains the traffic information of the network and does the efficient channel assignment without any message exchanges. We verify the efficiency of the proposed scheme through the mathematical modeling and the real-world experiments. The results show that the proposed scheme improves the throughput of the network compared with the conventional schemes.

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Abbreviations

WMN:

Wireless mesh network

LDT:

Link delivery traffic

TDC:

Traffic delivery count

EWMA:

Exponentially weighted moving average

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Acknowledgements

This research was supported by Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) funded by the Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning (2013R1A1A1008098).

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  1. Division of Electronics and Info-Communication Engineering, Yeungjin College, #35 Bokhyun-Ro, Buk-Gu, Daegu, 702-721, Korea

    Jae-Wan Kim & Sang-Tae Kim

  2. Division of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Korea Maritime and Ocean University, #727 Taejong-Ro, Youngdo-Gu, Busan, 606-791, Korea

    Yang-Ick Joo

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Kim, JW., Kim, ST. & Joo, YI. Distributed Channel Assignment Algorithm Based on Traffic Awareness in Wireless Mesh Networks. Wireless Pers Commun 95, 4983–5001 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-017-4142-2

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