Channel assignment mechanisms in dynamic spectrum access (DSA) networks are often designed without accounting for adjacent-channel interference (ACI) between different secondary users (SUs). To prevent such interference, guard-bands are needed between channels that are assigned to different SUs. However, introducing guard-bands restricts the spectrum efficiency. In this paper, we consider the p...

1 We consider the problem of jointly allocating channel centerfrequencies and bandwidths for IEEE 802.11 wireless LANs (WLANs). The bandwidth used on a link significantly affects both the capacity experienced on this link and the interference produced on neighboring links. Therefore, when jointly assigning both center frequencies and channel widths, a trade-off must be found between interferenc...