A cross-layer architecture for effective channel assignment with load-balancing in multi-radio multi-path wireless mesh networks

International Journal of Communication Systems

Volumn 22, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1267-1296

  Bononi, Luciano ^a   Felice, Marco Di ^a   Molinaro, Antonella ^b   Pizzi, Sara ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDITERRANEA OF REGGIO CALABRIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Channel assignment; Modeling and simulation; Multi path routing; Multi radio and multi channel technology; Wireless mesh networks

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATE THROUGHPUT; CHANNEL ALLOCATION; CHANNEL ALLOCATION SCHEME; CHANNEL ASSIGNMENT; COUPLING PROBLEM; CROSS-LAYER ARCHITECTURE; DISJOINT PATHS; END TO END DELAY; END-USERS; GATEWAY NODES; GOOD PUT; INTERFERENCE RANGE; INTERNET CONNECTIVITY; INTERNET GATEWAY; LOAD-BALANCING; LOAD-BALANCING SCHEMES; MODELING AND SIMULATION; MULTI-PATH; MULTI-PATH ROUTING; MULTI-PATH ROUTING SCHEMES; MULTI-RADIO; MULTI-RADIO AND MULTI-CHANNEL TECHNOLOGY; MULTIPLE NODES; MULTIPLE-PATH; NETWORK TOPOLOGY; RESIDENTIAL AREAS; ROUTING SCHEME; SIMULATION RESULT; SOURCE NODES;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC NETWORK TOPOLOGY; INTERNET; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; MULTIPATH PROPAGATION; ROUTING ALGORITHMS; ROUTING PROTOCOLS; WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN); WIRELESS MESH NETWORKS (WMN);

GATEWAYS (COMPUTER NETWORKS);

EID: 70349459403     PISSN: 10745351     EISSN: 10991131     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dac.1022     Document Type: Article

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