Distributed Rate-Control and Delay-Guaranteed Scheduling in MR-MC Wireless Mesh Networks

Wireless mesh networks (WMNs) can provide flexible wireless connections in smart city, Internet of Things (IoT), and device-to-device (D2D) communications. The performance of WMNs can be greatly enhanced by adopting the multi-radio multi-channel (MR-MC) technique, which enables a node to communicate with more nodes simultaneously. However, increasing the number of data flows will result in network congestion and longer end-to-end delays. In this paper, a distributed rate-control and delay-aware (DRDA) scheduling algorithm is proposed based on a multidimensional conflict graph. To satisfy the arrival rate and delay constraints of a flow, two virtual queues are constructed. All the actual and virtual queues are stabilized by the Lyapunov drift optimization method. The scheduling policy of each flow is optimized only based on the local information. The simulation results show that our proposed algorithm can maintain the stability of all the queues and strictly satisfy the arrival rate and delay constraint of each flow in the network as well.