Bandwidth reservation in multihop wireless networks: complexity and mechanisms
Leonidas G. Georgiadis, Philippe Jacquet, Bernard Mans · 2004
We show that link interferences in multihop wireless networks make the problem of selecting a path satisfying bandwidth requirements an NP-complete problem, even under simplified rules for bandwidth reservation. This is in sharp contrast to path selection in wireline networks where efficient polynomial algorithms exist. We also describe a distributed mechanism for the problem of slot allocation according to bandwidth reservation in a wireless slotted environment.