An efficient distributed fault-tolerant protocol for dynamic channel allocation

• Published in: Wireless communications and mobile computing Vol. 8; no. 3; pp. 279 - 294
• Main Authors: Huang, Tingxue, Boukerche, Azzedine, Abrougui, Kaouther, Williams, Jeff
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Chichester, UK John Wiley & Sons, Ltd 01.03.2008
• Subjects: dynamic channel allocation; fault tolerance; mobile cellular networks; performance analysis

Recent demand for mobile telephone services has been growing rapidly while the electromagnetic spectrum of frequencies allocated for this purpose remains limited. Any solution to the channel assignment problem is subject to this limitation, as well as the interference constraint between adjacent cha...