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Wireless mesh networks (WMNs) are receiving increasing attention as an effective means to provide broadband internet. Throughput is a major QoS in WMNs keeping in view of their perceived application areas and others being connectivity and reliability. WMNs use multiple radios and orthogonal communication channels to reduce interference and increase throughput and at the same time providing path redundancy, reliability and connectivity. In our work we propose a cluster based channel assignment scheme for WMNs and assume that the wireless radio interfaces are equipped with IEEE 802.11 network interface cards (NICs). We have extensively simulated our work using ns-2 network simulator and compared it against well-known channel assignment techniques and our result exhibits a significant increase in throughput.
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Saurav, G., Niva, D., Tanmoy, S. (2011). A Cluster Based Multi-Radio Multi-Channel Assignment Approach in Wireless Mesh Networks. In: Das, V.V., Stephen, J., Chaba, Y. (eds) Computer Networks and Information Technologies. CNC 2011. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 142. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-19542-6_94
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