Pulse-Coupled Oscillator Desynchronization (PCO-D) Based Resource Allocation for Multi-hop Networks

In recent years, because of the increasing number of network nodes and the rapidly changing network environment, several studies have attempted to extend biologically inspired algorithms to distributed resource-allocation schemes. In this paper, we present an algorithm representative of the class of bio-inspired resource allocation algorithm and propose a new distributed resource-allocation algorithm for fair sharing in multi-hop networks. Through simulation, we show that the proposed algorithm works well in a multi-hop network environment, with all nodes in the multi-hop network evenly sharing resources with their two-hop neighbors in a non-overlapping way.