Yang Liu

Work place: Henan University of Technology, Zhengzhou, P.R.China

E-mail: enjoyang@gmail.com

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Reducing Multicast Redundancy and Latency in Multi-Interface Multi-Channel Wireless Mesh Networks

By Kai Han Yang Liu

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijieeb.2009.01.06, Pub. Date: 8 Oct. 2009

In wireless mesh networks, each node can be equipped with multiple network interface cards tuned to different channels. In this paper, we study the problem of collision-free multicast in multi-interface multi-channel wireless mesh networks. The concept of interface redundancy is proposed as a new criterion for the multicast/broadcast redundancy in wireless mesh networks, and we prove that building a multicast/broadcast tree with the minimum interface redundancy is NP-hard. We also prove that the minimum-latency multicasting problem in multi-channel wireless mesh networks is NP-hard. We present two heuristic-based algorithms which jointly reduce the interface redundancy and the multicast latency. Since broadcast can be considered as a special case of multicast, an approximate algorithm for low-redundancy broadcast tree construction is also proposed, which has a constant approximation ratio. Finally, the simulation results prove the effectiveness of our approach.

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