PACA: Peer-Assisted Channel Assignment for Home Wireless LANs

Abstract— A home network is a residential local area network, in which users are networking their PCs, laptops or wireless multimedia appliances to use a single residential access point (AP) or gateway connecting to the Internet. As networkcapable appliances continue to gain momentum in the home, home networks are becoming increasingly popular. The problem arising from the increasing number of “wireless home” is the interference introduced from neighbor’s home networks which leads to throughput dropped precipitously. This problem is different from the traditional channel assignment problem in WLAN. We are considering how home wireless network can selfconfigure its operating channel to minimize interference with other networks instead of how network administrator assigns channel to different APs. In this paper, we propose a peerassisted channel assignment algorithm, termed PACA, for home wireless LAN based on local information. A newly power on AP automatically configures itse...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2006
• Where: GLOBECOM
• Authors: Chi-Fai Wong, S.-H. Gary Chan, Jiancong Chen
• Keywords: Channel Assignment, Channel Assignment Problem, GLOBECOM 2006, Home Networks, Telecommunications