A Study on Multi-Hop Multi-Band Multi-Radio WLAN Systems

ABSTRACT: Multi-hop relay networks are deployed to restore communication environment

in the catastrophe stricken area. The main purpose of multiband transmission over multi radio is
to minimize the end-to-end delay and maximize the throughput employing WLAN system and
multi-hop relay network. However with the increase of bandwidth intensive applications, the
future wireless networks are believed to carry high data rates, high throughput, and low latency.
Simultaneous multiband transmission in WLAN systems is believed to increase the coverage area
without power escalation. Firstly however, despite its potential, difference in data rate between
source-relay node and relay-destination node causes data loss from buffer overflow. Secondly,
because of inefficient traffic scheduling, packets arrive out of order and causes packet re-ordering
delay. To solve this problem we will first highlight the factors that affect the throughput and end-
to-end delay. Based on these factors, we will design mixed integer linear program (MILP) or mixed
integer non-linear program (MINLP) that aimed to minimize the end-to-end delay and maximize
the throughput.