Opportunistic Routing (OR) involves multiple forwarding candidates to relay packets by taking advantage of the broadcast nature and multi-user diversity of a wireless medium. Compared with Traditional Routing (TR), OR...Opportunistic Routing (OR) involves multiple forwarding candidates to relay packets by taking advantage of the broadcast nature and multi-user diversity of a wireless medium. Compared with Traditional Routing (TR), OR is more suitable in the case of an unreliable wireless link and can evidently improve the end-to-end throughput of Wireless Mesh Networks (WMNs). In this paper, we focus on OR in Multi-Radio Multi-Channel WMNs (MRMC-WMNs). This problem has not been well examined and is considerably more challenging than the OR in single-radio wireless networks considered in the existing literature. First, we validate the advantage of OR in MRMC-WMNs. Second, we propose Low-complexity Channel Assignment for Opportunistic Routing (LcCAOR), which assigns channels to flows according to the interference state of every node. Third, we implement the LcCOAR in a fully distributed manner. The simulation result shows that compared with OR in Single-Radio Single-Channel WMNs (SRSC-WMNs), the proposed OR can significantly enhance the throughput to 87.11% and 100.3% in grid and tree WMNs, respectively.展开更多
基金supported by the National Basic Research Program of China （973） under Grant No.2012CB315801 the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grants No.61003305,No.61173167,No.61173168,No.61070194 the Information Security Industrialization Fund from the National Development＆Reform Commission of China （NDRC） under Grant No.NDRC[2009]1886
文摘Opportunistic Routing (OR) involves multiple forwarding candidates to relay packets by taking advantage of the broadcast nature and multi-user diversity of a wireless medium. Compared with Traditional Routing (TR), OR is more suitable in the case of an unreliable wireless link and can evidently improve the end-to-end throughput of Wireless Mesh Networks (WMNs). In this paper, we focus on OR in Multi-Radio Multi-Channel WMNs (MRMC-WMNs). This problem has not been well examined and is considerably more challenging than the OR in single-radio wireless networks considered in the existing literature. First, we validate the advantage of OR in MRMC-WMNs. Second, we propose Low-complexity Channel Assignment for Opportunistic Routing (LcCAOR), which assigns channels to flows according to the interference state of every node. Third, we implement the LcCOAR in a fully distributed manner. The simulation result shows that compared with OR in Single-Radio Single-Channel WMNs (SRSC-WMNs), the proposed OR can significantly enhance the throughput to 87.11% and 100.3% in grid and tree WMNs, respectively.
