A Load Balance Channel Auction Mechanism in Multi-Interface Multi-Channel Wireless Mesh Networks

The efficient allocation of multi-interface multi-channel Wireless Mesh Network channel resources is a hot topic recently. Effective channel management mechanisms need to be designed to ensure the full and efficient use of channel resources. In this paper, combined with the channel load that network buyers perceived, the channel reassignment problem of multi-interface multi-channel Wireless Mesh Network is modeled as a simple auction model, and the LBAM mechanism based on load balance is proposed and designed. LBAM not only meets the strategy-proofness, but also achieves high channel utilization and buyer satisfaction ratio showed by the simulation experiments. At the same time, due to the consideration of channel load condition in the design of LBAM, simulation experiments also analyzed that it has a significant effect on the improvement of network throughput when the network load is heavy.