MRCSC: A cross-layer algorithm for joint Multicast Routing, Channel selection, Scheduling, and Call admission control in multi-cell multi-channel multi-radio cognitive radio wireless networks

This paper addresses the problem of joint multicast routing, channel selection, scheduling, and call admission control in multi-cell multi-channel multi-radio cognitive radio wireless mesh networks. The applied model relies on the QoS sessions, where each one is expressed with a bandwidth requirement. We propose a cross-layer algorithm named "Multicast Routing, Channel selection, Scheduling, and Call admission control (MRCSC)". The proposed scheme, considering wireless broadcast advantage, channel/radio diversity, and spatial reuse, uses both intra- and inter-cell relaying to create multicast trees with a specific bandwidth. MRCSC considers both inter-flow and intra-flow interferences. It adopts an efficient collision-free mechanism to greedily schedule different multicast transmission in the network. As an advantage, considering the multi-radio technology, MRCSC allows the nodes to simultaneously send receive data on different available non-overlapping channels. Numerical results of our comprehensive simulations confirm the efficiency of the MRCSC algorithm in terms of the number of transmissions, stability, and multicast period. (C) 2020 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.