Channel assignment model in wireless mesh networks
Shaharuddin Salleh, Nur Atikah Salahudin · 2011
Abstract – A wireless mesh network is a multi-hop network consisting of nodes called mesh routers and mesh clients. The network is self-organized and it is capable of covering a large geographical area for purposes like data gathering, communication and information processing. For communication, the nodes in the network are allocated with one or more channels based on the IEEE 802.11 protocol. Channels in a wireless mesh network are allocated in such a way to minimize the bandwidth with the constraint of avoiding the electromagnetic interferences. In this paper we propose a model called XION which allocate channels based on minimum bandwidth with the adjacency channel constraint. Our model is efficient in performing minimization in the number of channels and schedules the tasks in the network with minimum completion time.