Paper Info
Title
IQ-Hopping: distributed oblivious channel selection for wireless networks.
Abstract
Interference in WiFi deployments is a growing problem due to the increasing popularity of WiFi. Therefore it is important that APs find the right channel to operate upon. Through a large scale measurement study involving over 10,000 WiFi APs we show that channel measurements and selection are most effective when performed frequently (every few minutes). This is because of the highly dynamic nature of WiFi traffic congestion. Our key contribution in this paper is a novel approach to distributed channel selection -- Ineffective time Quantum (IQ) Hopping, that is simple enough to be described in three lines and has provable optimality guarantees. IQ-Hopping does not require any explicit channel measurements and can react within a matter of several seconds to bad channel conditions, including microwave ovens, hidden interferers, or dynamically varying congestion. Through implementation and experiments on off-the-shelf WiFi routers (OpenWRT, MadWiFi), we demonstrate the effectiveness of IQ-Hopping.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1145/2942358.2942376
MobiHoc
Field
DocType
Citations 
Wireless network,Delay-tolerant networking,Computer science,Computer network,Communication channel,Interference (wave propagation),Wireless mesh network,Scale measurement,Traffic congestion,Distributed computing
Conference
2
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.39
16
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Apurv Bhartia11298.12
Deeparnab Chakrabarty240041.50
K. Chintalapudi31753101.31
Lili Qiu43987284.13
Radunovic, Bozidar569152.54
R. Ramjee63180299.73