Wireless Mesh Network has drawn much attention due to wide area service coverage with low system cost and being easy to install.However,WMN suffers from high bit error rate,which provides different link capacity among...Wireless Mesh Network has drawn much attention due to wide area service coverage with low system cost and being easy to install.However,WMN suffers from high bit error rate,which provides different link capacity among wireless mesh routers.The conventional routing metrics select the path based on link quality.The link with the best quality is preferred as the data transmission path,and thus all nodes likely select the same link,which leads to network performance degradation.This paper proposes a routing metric that considers the available bandwidth and the number of nodes suffering congestion in the path.It is confirmed that the proposed method provides higher network performance of reduced delay,reduced packet loss and increased throughput than conventional routing metrics.展开更多
基金supported by the ubiquitous Computing and Network(UCN)Projectthe Ministry of Knowledge and Econ-omy(MKE)Knowledge and Economy Frontier R&DProgramin Korea as a result of UCN′s subproject10C2-C1-20Ssupported by the MKE(The Ministry of Knowledge Economy),Korea,under the Convergence-ITRC(Convergence Infor mation Technology Research Center)support program(NIPA-2011-C6150-1101-0004)
文摘Wireless Mesh Network has drawn much attention due to wide area service coverage with low system cost and being easy to install.However,WMN suffers from high bit error rate,which provides different link capacity among wireless mesh routers.The conventional routing metrics select the path based on link quality.The link with the best quality is preferred as the data transmission path,and thus all nodes likely select the same link,which leads to network performance degradation.This paper proposes a routing metric that considers the available bandwidth and the number of nodes suffering congestion in the path.It is confirmed that the proposed method provides higher network performance of reduced delay,reduced packet loss and increased throughput than conventional routing metrics.
