Maximum-weighted subset of communication requests schedulable without spectral splitting

Abstract

Consider a set of point-to-point communication requests in a multi-channel multihop wireless network, each of which is associated with a traffic demand of at most one unit of transmission time, and a weight representing the utility if its demand is fully met. A subset of requests is said to be schedulable without spectral splitting if they can be scheduled within one unit of time subject to the constraint each request is assigned with a unique channel throughout its transmission. This paper develops efficient and provably good approximation algorithms for finding a maximum-weighted subset of communication requests schedulable without spectral splitting.