Title
Frequency assignments in IEEE 802.11 WLANs with efficient spectrum sharing
Abstract
As the number of WLAN users grows, the need to perform efficient radio resource management strategies becomes essential due to the fact that most popular technologies, those based on IEEE 802.11 standards, use unlicensed frequency bands. A good channel assignment improves the network performance, producing benefits that are perceived by the users and also by the network administrators. In this paper, we present a new frequency management scheme for IEEE 802.11 WLANs in the 2.4 GHz ISM band that minimizes interference to increase the throughput available to client stations by adapting a weighted DSATUR algorithm for graph coloring. The algorithm takes both co-channel and adjacent channel interference into account, and makes use of all available channels instead of the traditional non-overlapping three. In this way, collisions as well as transmission errors are minimized, thus improving the network capacity and the user experience. Different architectures are discussed for the implementation of our approach, including the possibility to incorporate client stations into the management system. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Year
DOI
Venue
2009
10.1002/wcm.v9:8
Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing
Keywords
Field
DocType
WLAN,IEE 802.11,radio resource management
Radio resource management,IEEE 802.11,Computer science,Adjacent-channel interference,ISM band,Computer network,Throughput,Frequency allocation,Channel allocation schemes,Distributed computing,Network performance
Journal
Volume
Issue
Citations 
9
8
15
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.88
24
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Eduard Garcia Villegas113014.64
Rafael Vidal Ferré2283.40
Josep Paradells347244.49