In cellular communication systems, channel assignment schemes are very important to improve teletraf®c performance characteristics. Because of the overlapping design of the cells in cellular communication systems, a mobile user is capable of communicating with two different bases. In this paper, a new channel assignment scheme is proposed to improve the blocking probability of a cellular commun...

This paper deals with the problem of channel assignment in mobile communication systems. In particular, we propose an alternative approach to solving the dynamic channel assignment (DCA) problem through a form of real-time reinforcement learning known as Q-learning. Instead of relying on a known teacher, the system is designed to learn an optimal assignment policy by directly interacting with t...

Wireless mesh networks (WMNs) provide high-speed backbone networks without any wired cable. Many researchers have tried to increase network throughput by using multi-channel and multi-radio interfaces. A multi-radio multi-channel WMN requires channel assignment algorithm to decide the number of channels needed for each link. Since the channel assignment affects routing and interference directly...

Today, IEEE 802.11 wireless LANs (WLANs) are widely deployed throughout the world. It is known that static channel assignments are not sufficient for these networks due to traffic variations. However, in order to maintain compatibility with the existing protocol standards, it is not possible to employ dynamic channel allocation methods to handle traffic-load fluctuations. Rather, adaptive assig...

In this paper we systematically study several channel assignment problems in multi-hop ad-hoc wireless networks in the presence of several constraints. Both regular grids and random topology models are considered in the analysis. We identify three fairness constraints (unfair, fair, and 1-fair), Signal to Interference Ratio (SINR) constraint (to measure the link quality) and balance constraint ...

Channel assignment in multi-channel multi-radio wireless mesh networks is a powerful management tool to exploit available resources efficiently. In this paper, we study the problem of dynamic channel assignment in the presence of traffic with QoS constraints to optimize network performance, which is measured in terms of demand acceptance rate. We propose an on-line on-demand dynamic algorithm f...

The optimal assignment problem of channels has become increasingly important since the usable range of the frequency spectrum is limited. Recently Genetic Algorithms (GAs) have been proposed as new computational tools for solving optimization problems. GAs are more attractive than other optimization techniques, such as neural network or simulated annealing, since GAs are generally good at nd-in...

Recently, we proposed an interference-aware channel segregation based dynamic channel assignment (IACS-DCA). In IACS-DCA, each base station (BS) measures the instantaneous co-channel interference (CCI) power on each available channel, computes the moving average CCI power using past CCI measurement results, and selects the channel having the lowest moving average CCI power. In this way, the CCI...

We investigate the problem of channel assignment in a metropolitan multi-radio wireless mesh network with directional antennas. Our contributions include a new conflict graph model for capturing the interference between links in a mesh network with a known wireless interface communication graph, and a new channel assignment procedure which accounts for interference both between links inside the...

CHANNEL ASSIGNMENT AND ROUTING FOR MULTI-RADIO WIRELESS MESH NETWORKS Ahmet Murat Özdemiray M.S. in Computer Engineering Supervisor: Assist. Prof. Dr. İbrahim Körpeoğlu September, 2008 Wireless Mesh Network is a promising technology since it extends the range of wireless coverage by multi-hop transmission between routers. However, in multihop networks the total throughput decreases with increas...