Abstract:
Multi-Radio Wireless Mesh Networks (MR-WMN)
can substantially increase the aggregate capacity of
the Wireless Mesh Networks (WMN) if the channels
are assigned to the nodes in an intelligent way so that
the overall interference is limited. We propose a
generic self-organisation algorithm that addresses the
two key challenges of scalability and stability in a
WMN. The basic approach is that of a distributed,
light-weight, co-operative multiagent system that
guarantees scalability. The usefulness of our algorithm
is exhibited by the performance evaluation results that
are presented for different MR-WMN node densities
and typical topologies. In addition, our work
complements the Task Group 802.11s Extended
Service Set (ESS) Mesh networking project work that is
in progress.
