Enhancing Multi-Hop Wireless Mesh Networks with a Ring Overlay

Author

Reaz, A. ; Ramamurthi, Vishwanath ; Ghosal, Dipak ; Benko, John ; Li, Wei ; Dixit, Sudhir ; Mukherjee, Biswanath

Author_Institution

California Univ., Davis, CA

fYear

2008

fDate

16-20 June 2008

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

Wireless mesh network (WMN) has become a popular access network architecture. But because of its multi-hop nature, co-channel interference and contention, the attainable capacity of a wireless node in a WMN is significantly less than the radio capacity. We propose a overlay architecture for a WMN, where a wireless-ring (WRing) is deployed over the regular mesh for carrying wireless mesh traffic only. Our analysis shows that WRing improves the performance of a WMN significantly by reducing the interference and contention.

Keywords

Internet; cochannel interference; mobile radio; radio links; telecommunication network routing; Internet; access network architecture; cochannel interference; gateway; multihop wireless mesh networks; radio capacity; ring overlay; wireless mesh traffic; wireless routers; Delay; Interchannel interference; Performance analysis; Road transportation; Routing; Spread spectrum communication; Telecommunication traffic; Topology; Wireless mesh networks; Wireless networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Sensor, Mesh and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks Workshops, 2008. SECON Workshops '08. 5th IEEE Annual Communications Society Conference on

Conference_Location

San Francisco, CA

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2562-4

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2563-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SAHCNW.2008.18

Filename

4567131