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   <dc:title>P-MR: Backpressure Routing for the Heterogeneous Multi-Radio Backhaul of Small Cells</dc:title>
   <dc:creator>Baranda Hortigüela, Jorge</dc:creator>
   <dc:creator>Núñez-Martínez, Jóse</dc:creator>
   <dc:creator>Mangues Bafalluy, Josep</dc:creator>
   <dc:contributor>Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya</dc:contributor>
   <dc:subject>Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Enginyeria de la telecomunicació</dc:subject>
   <dc:subject>Internetworking (Telecommunication)</dc:subject>
   <dc:subject>Backhaul network</dc:subject>
   <dc:subject>Interoperabilitat en xarxes d'ordinadors</dc:subject>
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   <dc:description>Dense  small  cell  (SC)  deployments  are  expected to  help  handling  the  explosive  growth  of  mobile  data  usage.&#xd;
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However,  the  backhaul  of  these  deployments  will  face  several challenges  where  point-to-point  (PTP)  and  point-to-multi point (PMP) wireless technologies will be combined forming multi point-to-multipoint (MP2MP) wireless mesh backhauls. In this context, routing  and  load  balancing  solutions  will  be  of  key  importance to  maximize  the  use  of  wireless  backhaul  resources.  This  paper presents  Backpressure  for  Multi-Radio  (BP-MR),  a  distributed routing  and  load  balancing  protocol  specifically  designed  for heterogeneous  MP2MP  wireless  mesh  backhauls.  The  backhaul is  heterogeneous  in  the  sense  that  each  node  may  embed  a different number of diverse wireless interfaces. BP-MR introduces a two-stage routing process to appropriately handle Head-of-Line blocking issues that appear in such multi-radio environments. &#xd;
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We validate these improvements with ns-3 simulations under different network  conditions.  As  a  consequence  of  an  improved  wireless link  usage  efficiency,  results  show  improvements  in  through put of  up  to  34%  and  in  latency  of  up  to  one  order  of  magnitude&#xd;
with respect  to state-of-the-art  approaches.</dc:description>
   <dc:description>Postprint (author's final draft)</dc:description>
   <dc:date>2015-10</dc:date>
   <dc:type>Conference lecture</dc:type>
   <dc:identifier>Baranda, Jorge; Núñez-Martínez, Jóse; Mangues-Bafalluy, Josep. P-MR: Backpressure Routing for the Heterogeneous Multi-Radio Backhaul of Small Cells. A: 8th IFIP Wireless and Mobile Networking Conference (WMNC 2015). "Wireless and Mobile Networking Conference (WMNC 2015)". Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2015.</dc:identifier>
   <dc:identifier>https://hdl.handle.net/2117/78818</dc:identifier>
   <dc:language>eng</dc:language>
   <dc:relation>info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/645047/EU/Shared Access Terrestrial-Satellite Backhaul Network enabled by Smart Antennas/SANSA</dc:relation>
   <dc:rights>http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/</dc:rights>
   <dc:rights>Open Access</dc:rights>
   <dc:rights>Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Spain</dc:rights>
   <dc:format>8 p.</dc:format>
   <dc:format>application/pdf</dc:format>
   <dc:publisher>Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers</dc:publisher>
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