Title: Optimal and heuristic algorithms for constructing interference-free multicast trees subject to delay and energy constraints on wireless mesh networks

Authors: Wen-Lin Yang

Addresses: Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National University of Tainan, Tainan City, 70005, Taiwan

Abstract: Due to the great concerns of environmental protection and the high rising of prices in oil, energy efficiency has become an important factor for designing network applications. In this paper, we study an optimisation problem which is concerned about how to construct an interference free multicast tree subject to delay and energy constraints on a multi-channel multi-radio wireless mesh network. Our objective is to maximise the number of mesh clients that can be included in the multicast tree. This problem is referred as the EDMRM problem. To solve it, we first propose an optimal algorithm on the basis of integer linear programming (ILP) for the EDMRM problem. Since the ILP-based method is only feasible for small-scale networks, we also provide a tabu-based heuristic algorithm for solving practical networks that consist of a large number of nodes. The experimental results show that our tabu-based heuristic can outperform the other previously proposed methods.

Keywords: wireless mesh networks; WMNs; delay constraints; energy constraints; tabu search; ILP; integer linear programming; optimisation; interference-free multicast trees; heuristics.

DOI: 10.1504/IJAHUC.2016.077202

International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing, 2016 Vol.22 No.2, pp.106 - 119

Received: 18 Nov 2013
Accepted: 04 Jul 2014
Published online: 23 Jun 2016 *

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