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Plant automation and control are mission-critical applications and require timely and reliable data delivery, which is difficult to provide using a wireless technology. This is especially more difficult in industrial environments with harsh radio conditions. In this paper we present a dynamic and distributed topology control algorithm for Wireless Sensor Networks for use in performance critical environments...
Due to the energy-constrained nature of wireless sensor networks (WSNs), a variety of communication protocols which rely on cluster-based topologies to enhance network capacity or to prolong network operational lifetime have been well studied heretofore. In this paper, we instead study a comprehensive perspective that searches for an optimal operation that considers backbone node placement and communication...
Mesh router (MR) placement is one of the fundamental issues that need to be addressed carefully to achieve a desired performance of a wireless mesh network (WMN). The objective of the MR placement schemes is to systematically determine the minimal number of MRs and their positions while satisfying various constraints, such as coverage, connectivity, traffic demand, etc. This paper explores the solution...
Data caching is one of the attractive techniques that can increase the efficiency of data access in wireless multi-hop ad hoc networks. However, it is still a challenging task to achieve an optimal trade-off between the total traffic cost and average access delay by properly selecting cache nodes, i.e. cache placement. In this paper, we address the problem of cache placement in wireless multi-hop...
This paper studies the problem of multicast routing and channel assignment in multi-channel and multi-interface wireless mesh networks. The advantage of the wireless broadcast's nature is used to reduce interference and improve network throughput. The employed network model is first described. Next, a heuristic channel assignment algorithm that makes use of the wireless broadcast's advantage is presented...
The topology control for guaranteeing QoS requirements of nodes might not have any solution because of the limited resources of nodes, e.g., the maximum transmitting power. In this case, the mobility of nodes can compensate for the shortage of resources and then makes a topology feasible. We propose the energy efficient mobility control algorithms for the QoS topology control with the least movement...
Nowadays wireless mesh routers are facilitating with more wireless channels than ever because of the advanced wireless communication technologies such as OFDM, SDR and CR(cognitive radio). With multi-radio and multichannel communication capability, spectrum heterogeneity are widely existing in multi-radio wireless systems, such that network performances usually suffer from channel bandwidth and transmission...
The issues of network performance and reliability in wireless access networks have become indispensable due to the increasing needs for communication services anywhere and anytime. Traditional design of wireless backhaul networks has a simple tree-like structure which is vulnerable to network failures. To protect services against network component/facility breakdown, reliable network design is required...
Single channel is a severe capacity bottleneck in wireless mesh networks (WMNs). Multiple channels enhance the wireless network capacity by simultaneous transmissions and decrease the interference among nodes. Due to the scarcity of non-overlapped channels, the way of assigning channels becomes extremely important for throughput optimization in WMNs. This article presents a channel assignment algorithm,...
Traffic routing plays a critical role in determining the performance of a wireless mesh network. To investigate the best solution, existing work proposes to formulate the mesh network routing problem as an optimization problem. In this problem formulation, traffic demand is usually implicitly assumed as static and known a priori. Contradictorily, recent studies of wireless network traces show that...
Topology control is an effective measure at network layer to implement power control for energy-saving, which is a critical issue in ad-hoc wireless networks. Topology control also affects other significant performances of network, such as packet delivery radio, end-to-end delay, and network capacity etc. Various techniques and algorithms have been proposed to achieve the optimal topology which can...
Unlike traditional cellular networks, little attention has been given to solve the problem of wireless channels allocation in cellular networks with mobile base stations (MBSs). Due to the mobility of base stations in such networks, network topology becomes highly dynamic. Consequently, cochannel interference range and channel reuse pattern are not static. This makes the problem of channels allocation...
We study the problem of transmission-side diversity and routing in a static wireless network. It is assumed that each node in the network is equipped with a single omnidirectional antenna and that multiple nodes are allowed to coordinate their transmissions in order to obtain energy savings. We derive analytical results for achievable energy savings for both line and grid network topologies. It is...
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