Access scheduling on the control channels in TDMA wireless mesh networks

Hongju Cheng*, Xiaohua Jia, Hai Liu

*Corresponding author for this work

Research output: Chapters, Conference Papers, Creative and Literary WorksRGC 32 - Refereed conference paper (with host publication)peer-review

Abstract

The access scheduling on the control channels in TDMA wireless mesh networks is studied in this paper. The problem is to assign time-slots for each node in the network to access the control channels so that it is guaranteed that each node can broadcast the control packet to any one-hop neighbor in one scheduling cycle. The objective is to minimize the total number of different time-slots in the scheduling cycle. The original contributions of this paper are that it has taken the large interference range problem into consideration for the first time and proposed two algorithms for the scheduling problem, namely, the Speak Once algorithm and the Speak Separately algorithm. We prove that the number of time-slots by the second algorithm is upper-bounded by min(n, 2K) in some special cases, where n is the node number and K is the maximum node degree. The fully distributed versions of these algorithms are given in this paper. Simulation results also show that the performance of the Speak Separately algorithm is rather better than that of the Speak Once algorithm. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2007.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationComputational Science and Its Applications - ICCSA 2007
Subtitle of host publicationInternational Conference, Proceedings
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages247-260
Volume4706 LNCS
ISBN (Print)9783540744757
Publication statusPublished - 2007
EventInternational Conference on Computational Science and its Applications, ICCSA 2007 - Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Duration: 26 Aug 200729 Aug 2007

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume4706 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

ConferenceInternational Conference on Computational Science and its Applications, ICCSA 2007
Country/TerritoryMalaysia
CityKuala Lumpur
Period26/08/0729/08/07

Research Keywords

  • Access scheduling
  • Algorithms
  • Control channel
  • TDMA (time-division-multiple access)
  • Wireless mesh networks

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