Dynamic Channel Allocation in Wireless Networks Using Learning Automata (Preprint)

Abstract

Single channel based wireless networks have limited bandwidth and throughput and the bandwidth utilization decreases due to congestion and interference from other sources. In order to increase the throughput, transmission in multiple channels is considered as an option. In this paper, we propose a distributed dynamic channel allocation scheme using adaptive learning automata for wireless networks whose nodes are equipped with single radio interfaces. The proposed schemes, Adaptive Pursuit Reward-Inaction, Adaptive Pursuit Reward-Penalty, and Adaptive Pursuit Reward-Only, run periodically on the nodes, and adaptively find the suitable channel allocation in order to attain a desired performance. A novel performance index, which takes into account the throughput and the energy consumption, is considered. The proposed learning scheme is adaptive in the sense of updating rule. The update value of the probabilities in the each step is a function of the error in the performance index.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 2009
Accession Number
ADA502911

Entities

People

  • Behdis Eslamnour
  • Maciej Zawodniok
  • S. Jagannathan

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Air Force Research Laboratories
  • Automata
  • Bandwidth
  • Channel Allocation
  • Cognitive Radio
  • Data Transmission
  • Energy Consumption
  • Learning
  • Networks
  • Probability
  • Sensor Networks
  • Simulations
  • Throughput
  • Wireless Communications
  • Wireless Networks
  • Wireless Sensor Networks

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Neural Network Machine Learning.
  • Radio communications and signal processing.