On the Resource Allocation for Wireless Ad Hoc Networks

The ability to adjust the allocated bandwidth of ongoing flows to cope with resource fluctuation of wireless network is becoming increasingly important. In this paper, we describe a price-based bandwidth adaptation scheme for quality-of-service (QoS) provisioning in ad-hoc network. Depending on the network load, the allocated bandwidth of flows is adjusted dynamically such that the QoS of the wireless network can be optimized. The performance of simulation indicates that the proposed scheme can achieve the goal of optimal channel capacity sharing among multi-hop flows fairly.