학술논문

Blocking probability and channel assignment in wireless networks
Document Type
Periodical
Source
IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications IEEE Trans. Wireless Commun. Wireless Communications, IEEE Transactions on. 5(4):869-879 Apr, 2006
Subject
Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Computing and Processing
Signal Processing and Analysis
Intelligent networks
Wireless networks
Spread spectrum communication
Telecommunication traffic
Traffic control
Network topology
Interference
Quality of service
Steady-state
Routing
Language
ISSN
1536-1276
1558-2248
Abstract
We consider a multi-hop wireless network with a connection-oriented traffic model and multiple transmission channels that can be spatially re-used. In such a network the blocking probability of a call that makes a channel request depends on (a) the channel assignment scheme and (b) the transmission radius of the nodes which affects the network link structure. In this work, we study these two aspects for simple wireless networks. Specifically, we develop blocking probability analysis for a wireless line and grid network and explore the tradeoff between transmission radius and blocking probability for multi-hop calls. We show that for a line network a larger transmission radius can substantially reduce the blocking probability of calls, while for a grid network with a more dense node topology using a smaller transmission radius is better. We then, investigate various channel assignment schemes and present a novel non-rearranging channel assignment algorithm for multi-hop calls in a general network. Our algorithm efficiently incorporates spatial channel re-use and significantly reduces call blocking probability when compared to other algorithms.