EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking (Jan 2010)

An Interference-Aware Admission Control Design for Wireless Mesh Networks

  • Devu Manikantan Shila,
  • Tricha Anjali

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1155/2010/106520
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 2010

Abstract

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In this paper, we present IAC, an interference aware admission control algorithm for use in wireless mesh networks. The core concept of IAC is to use a low overhead dual threshold based approach to share the bandwidth information with its neighbors in the interfering range. As a result, IAC guarantees that the shared wireless bandwidth is not overutilized and the quality of all existing flows are preserved. Moreover, IAC takes into account the intraflow interference effect to estimate the bandwidth consumption of the flow in a multihop path. We have further proposed two approaches of bandwidth allocation, FCFS and MCU, and demonstrated that proper tuning of thresholds can lead to high performance of both schemes. Simulation results illustrate that IAC effectively limits the overutilization of channel resources which in turn results in high throughput, low delay and low packet loss rate for all admitted flows.