ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS)
Algebra and algorithms for QoS path computation and hop-by-hop routing in the internet
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
A high-throughput path metric for multi-hop wireless routing
Proceedings of the 9th annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking
Routing in multi-radio, multi-hop wireless mesh networks
Proceedings of the 10th annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking
Architecture and evaluation of an unplanned 802.11b mesh network
Proceedings of the 11th annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking
A multi-radio 802.11 mesh network architecture
Mobile Networks and Applications
Practical, distributed channel assignment and routing in dual-radio mesh networks
Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2009 conference on Data communication
Wireless mesh networks: a survey
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking - Special issue on simulators and experimental testbeds design and development for wireless networks
Channel assignment schemes for cellular mobile telecommunication systems: A comprehensive survey
IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials
Mesh networks: commodity multihop ad hoc networks
IEEE Communications Magazine
Hardware and software solutions for wireless mesh network testbeds
IEEE Communications Magazine
DMesh: Incorporating Practical Directional Antennas in Multichannel Wireless Mesh Networks
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
On-demand channel reservation scheme for common traffic in wireless mesh networks
Journal of Network and Computer Applications
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Wireless mesh networks (WMN) typically employ mesh routers that are equipped with multiple radio interfaces to improve network capacity. The key aspect is to cleverly assign different channels (i.e., frequency bands) to each radio interface to form a WMN with minimum interference. The channel assignment must obey the constraints that the number of different channels assigned to a mesh router is at most the number of interfaces on the router, and the resultant mesh network is connected. This problem is known to be NP-hard. In this paper we propose a hybrid, interference and traffic aware channel assignment (ITACA) scheme that achieves good multi-hop path performance between every node and the designated gateway nodes in a multi-radio WMN network. ITACA addresses the scalability issue by routing traffic over low-interference, high-capacity links and by assigning operating channels in such a way to reduce both intra-flow and inter-flow interference. The proposed solution has been evaluated by means of both simulations and by implementing it over a real-world WMN testbed. Results demonstrate the validity of the proposed approach with performance increase as high as 111%.