MRCR: an agent-based scheme for channel re-allocation in cellular wireless networks

Wireless communication offers flexible ways of enabling access to electronic information from anywhere, anytime. However, wireless communication suffers from many restrictions due to the inherent limitations of the wireless media and existing wireless communication protocols. Limited radio frequency spectrum (or bandwidth) is one of the major issues in wireless communication. In this paper, we propose a frequency re-allocation scheme, message ring-based channel re-allocation (MRCR) that improves channel utilization in wireless communication systems. MRCR uses software agents to circulate and maintain a message ring that carries bandwidth information. We present results of simulation studies to demonstrate the effectiveness of the MRCR scheme