Minimum Interference Channel Assignment in Multiradio Wireless Mesh Networks

  • Authors:

  • Anand Prabhu Subramanian;Himanshu Gupta;Samir R. Das;Jing Cao

  • Affiliations:

  • Stony Brook University, Stony Brook;Stony Brook University, Stony Brook;Stony Brook University, Stony Brook;State Key Laboratory of Virtual Reality Technology and Systems, Beijin

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

In this paper, we consider multi-hop wireless mesh networks, where each router node is equipped with multiple radio interfaces and multiple channels are available for communication. We address the problem of assigning channels to communication links in the network with the objective of minimizing overall network interference. Since the number of radios on any node can be less than the number of available channels, the channel assignment must obey the constraint that the number of different channels assigned to the links incident on any node is atmost the number of radio interfaces on that node. The above optimization problem is known to be NP-hard. We design centralized and distributed algorithms for the above channel assignment problem. To evaluate the quality of the solutions obtained by our algorithms, we develop a semidefinite program and a linear program formulation of our optimization problem to obtain lower bounds on overall network interference. Empirical evaluations on randomly generated network graphs show that our algorithms perform close to the above established lower bounds, with the difference diminishing rapidly with increase in number of radios. Also, ns-2 simulations as well as experimental studies on testbed demonstrate the performance potential of our channel assignment algorithms in 802.11-based multi-radio mesh networks.