Routing and channel assignment for low power transmission in PCS

Abstract

There has been increased interest recently from military, civil, and commercial sectors in networks capable of self-organization. Routing and channel assignment for multi-hop communications in these networks are complex problems, given the interactions between the various transmissions, all of which must share some fixed bandwidth, and by the lack of a central controller. By enforcing a "reuse distance" similar to the frequency reuse factor in AMPS cellular service, we can route and assign channels to (place) arriving calls in a peer-to-peer network so as to significantly reduce power requirements and interference.