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2017 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC)

DOI: 10.1109/wcnc.2017.7925886

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Fine-Grained Radio Resource Management to Control Interference in Dense Wi-Fi Networks

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Abstract

In spite of the enormous popularity of Wi-Fi-enabled devices, the utilisation of Wi-Fi radio resources (e.g. RF spectrum and transmission power levels) at Access Points (APs) is degraded in current decentralised Radio Resource Management (RRM) schemes. Most state of the art centralised control solutions apply configurations in which the network-wide impacts of the involved parameters and their mutual relationships are ignored. In this paper, we propose an algorithm for jointly adjusting the transmission power levels and optimising the RF channel assignment of APs by taking into account the flows’ required qualities while minimising their interference impact throughout the network. The proposed solution is tailored for an operator-agnostic and Software Defined Wireless Networking (SDWN)-based centralised RRM in dense Wi-Fi networks. Our extensive simulation results validate the performance improvements of the proposed algorithm compared to the main state of the art alternative by showing more than 25% higher spectrum efficiency, satisfying the users’ demands and further mitigating the network-wide interference through flow-based and quality-oriented power level adjustment.