On traffic load distribution and load balancing in dense wireless multihop networks

  • Authors:
  • Esa Hyytiä;Jorma Virtamo

  • Affiliations:
  • The Telecommunications Research Center Vienna (ftw.), Donau-City Strasse, Vienna, Austria;Networking Laboratory, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland

  • Venue:
  • EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

We study the load balancing problem in a dense wireless multihop network, where a typical path consists of a large number of hops, that is, the spatial scales of a typical distance between source and destination and mean distance between the neighboring nodes are strongly separated. In this limit, we present a general framework for analyzing the traffic load resulting from a given set of paths and traffic demands. We formulate the load balancing problem as a minmax problem and give two lower bounds for the achievable minimal maximum traffic load. The framework is illustrated by considering the load balancing problem of uniformly distributed traffic demands in a unit disk. For this special case, we derive efficient expressions for computing the resulting traffic load for a given set of paths. By using these expressions, we are able to optimize a parameterized set of paths yielding a particularly flat traffic load distribution which decreases the maximum traffic load in the network by 40% in comparison with the shortest-path routing.