JACPoT: A Joint Algorithm for Channel and Power Assignment in Enterprise Wireless Networks

The demand for wireless communication in enterprise network has been increasing with the advent of "smart working environment." In enterprise wireless network, high density of access points (APs) and limited frequency resources raise the significance of radio resource management. In this paper, we propose a centralized algorithm, named JACPoT, for jointly executable transmission power control (TPC) and dynamic channel assignment (DCA). The proposed algorithm first guarantees that the links between AP and client stations are robust to the inter-cell interference via TPC. Next, it minimizes contention between neighboring APs via DCA utilizing a novel metric and annealed Gibbs sampler. Through ns-3 simulations based on measurement in real office environments, we demonstrate that JACPoT reduces uplink frame collisions by 36% and significantly enhances both data and voice traffic delivery.

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