Minimum Interference Channel Assignment in Multi-Radio Wireless Mesh Networks

—In this paper, we consider multi-hop wireless mesh networks, where each router node is equipped with multiple radio interfaces and multiple channels are available for communication. We address the problem of assigning channels to communication links in the network with the objective of minimizing overall network interference. Since the number of radios on any node can be less than the number of available channels, the channel assignment must obey the constraint that the number of different channels assigned to the links incident on any node is atmost the number of radio interfaces on that node. The above optimization problem is known to be NP-hard. We design centralized and distributed algorithms for the above channel assignment problem. To evaluate the quality of the solutions obtained by our algorithms, we develop a semidefinite program formulation of our optimization problem to obtain a lower bound on overall network interference. Empirical evaluations on randomly generated netw...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: SECON
• Authors: Anand Prabhu Subramanian, Himanshu Gupta, Samir R. Das
• Keywords: Channel Assignment, Optimization Problem, Overall Network Interference, SECON 2007