A fast and scalable algorithm for calculating the achievable capacity of a wireless mesh network

This paper considers the problem of rapidly determining the maximum achievable capacity of a multi-hop wireless mesh network subject to interference constraints. Being able to quickly determine the maximum supported flow in a wireless network has numerous practical applications for network planners...

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Veröffentlicht in:2016 14th International Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc, and Wireless Networks (WiOpt) S. 1 - 7
Hauptverfasser: Kuperman, Greg, Jones, Nathaniel M., Jun Sun, Narula-Tam, Aradhana
Format: Tagungsbericht
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: IEEE 01.05.2016
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Zusammenfassung:This paper considers the problem of rapidly determining the maximum achievable capacity of a multi-hop wireless mesh network subject to interference constraints. Being able to quickly determine the maximum supported flow in a wireless network has numerous practical applications for network planners and researchers. Current approaches for determining network capacity either provide asymptotic results that are not necessarily achievable, are computationally intractable and cannot be computed quickly, or are not generalizable to different interference constraints for emerging technologies. In this paper, we present a new algorithm to rapidly determine the maximum concurrent flow for an arbitrary number of unicast and multicast connections subject to arbitrary binary interference constraints, and provide a feasible route and schedule to support those flows. The solution provided by our algorithm is within O(δ -1 ) of the maximum possible flow, where δ is the maximum number of links that cannot be activated due to interference from some particular transmission.
DOI:10.1109/WIOPT.2016.7492896