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Power-Efficient Spatial Reusable Channel Assignment Scheme in WLAN Mesh Networks

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Interference has strong effect on the available bandwidth of wireless local area network (WLAN) based mesh networks. The channel assignment problem for multi-radio multi-channel multihop WLAN mesh networks is complex NP-hard, and channel assignment, routing and power control are tightly coupled. To mitigate the co-channel interference and improve capacity in multi-channel and multi-interface WLAN mesh networks, a power-efficient spatial reusable channel assignment scheme is proposed, which considers both channel diversity and spatial reusability to reduce co-channel interference by joint adjusting channel, transmission power and routing. In order to assign channel appropriately, an efficient power control scheme and a simple heuristic algorithm is introduced to achieve this objective, which adjust the channel and power level of each radio according to the current channel conditions so as to increase the opportunity of channel spatial reusability. The proposed channel assignment scheme also takes load, capacity and interference of links into consideration. Simulation results show the effectiveness of our approach and demonstrate that the proposed scheme can get better performance than other approaches in terms of throughput, blocking ratio, energy consumption and end-to-end delay.

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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 60902053), and the Natural Science Foundation of Hubei Province (No. 2008CDB339). The authors also gratefully acknowledge the helpful comments and suggestions of the reviewers.

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Zhu, R., Wang, J. Power-Efficient Spatial Reusable Channel Assignment Scheme in WLAN Mesh Networks. Mobile Netw Appl 17, 53–63 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11036-011-0302-x

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