Directional virtual carrier sensing for directional antennas in mobile ad hoc networks
Proceedings of the 3rd ACM international symposium on Mobile ad hoc networking & computing
Using directional antennas for medium access control in ad hoc networks
Proceedings of the 8th annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking
Computers and Intractability: A Guide to the Theory of NP-Completeness
Computers and Intractability: A Guide to the Theory of NP-Completeness
Proceedings of the 4th ACM international symposium on Mobile ad hoc networking & computing
On the capacity improvement of ad hoc wireless networks using directional antennas
Proceedings of the 4th ACM international symposium on Mobile ad hoc networking & computing
Proceedings of the 5th ACM international symposium on Mobile ad hoc networking and computing
Centralized channel assignment and routing algorithms for multi-channel wireless mesh networks
ACM SIGMOBILE Mobile Computing and Communications Review
Proceedings of the 10th annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking
Interference-aware topology control and QoS routing in multi-channel wireless mesh networks
Proceedings of the 6th ACM international symposium on Mobile ad hoc networking and computing
Proceedings of the 11th annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking
Impact of topology control on end to end performance for directional MANETs
MILCOM'06 Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE conference on Military communications
IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications - Part 1
Ad hoc networking with directional antennas: a complete system solution
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
DMesh: Incorporating Practical Directional Antennas in Multichannel Wireless Mesh Networks
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
IEEE Network: The Magazine of Global Internetworking
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Directional antennas are widely used technologies for reducing signal interference and increasing spatial reuse. In this paper, we propose a topology control method for multi-channel multi-radio wireless mesh networks that use directional antennas. We are given a set of mesh routers installed in a region and some of them are gateway nodes that are connected to the Internet via wired lines. Each router has a traffic demand (Internet access traffic) generated from the end-users. The problem is how to adjust antenna orientations of radios and assign channels to them to construct a logical network topology, such that the minimum delivery ratio of traffic demands of routers is maximized. We first formulate the problem to an equivalent optimization problem with a clearer measurable metric, which is to minimize the largest interfering traffic of links in the network. We then propose a three-step solution to solve the problem. Firstly, we construct a set of routing trees, with the objective to balance the traffic among tree links. Secondly, we assign the radios of a node to the links it needs to serve, such that the total traffic load of the links that each radio serves is as balanced as possible. Thirdly, we do a fine-grained adjustment of antenna orientations and assign channels to them, such that the transmission area of each antenna will cover all the links it serves and the largest interfering traffic of links is minimized.