A distributed channel probing scheme for wireless networks

Author

Zhu, Chenxi ; Corson, M. Scott

Author_Institution

Inst. for Syst. Res., Maryland Univ., College Park, MD, USA

Volume

1

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

403

Abstract

This paper presents a distributed channel probing scheme for wireless networks. By transmitting a probing signal in a channel and measuring the signal-to-interference ratio (SIR), a wireless node can estimate channel admissibility and predict its required transmission power without fully powering up. The channel probing scheme can be used as part of a distributed channel allocation algorithm, and simulations have shown that it outperforms other schemes

Keywords

channel allocation; distributed algorithms; frequency division multiple access; multiuser channels; power control; radio networks; radiofrequency interference; telecommunication control; time division multiple access; SIR measurement; TDMA/FDMA system; channel admissibility estimation; distributed channel allocation algorithm; distributed channel probing; power control; probing signal transmission; signal-to-interference ratio; simulations; transmission power; wireless networks; wireless node; Admission control; Channel allocation; Educational institutions; Interference; Power control; Power measurement; Probes; Time division multiple access; Transmitters; Wireless networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

INFOCOM 2001. Twentieth Annual Joint Conference of the IEEE Computer and Communications Societies. Proceedings. IEEE

Conference_Location

Anchorage, AK

ISSN

0743-166X

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7016-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/INFCOM.2001.916723

Filename

916723