A simple scheme to improve the throughput of small multi-hop wireless networks

Author

Gunashekar, S.D. ; Das, A. ; Erlebach, T. ; Warrington, E.M.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Univ. of Leicester, Leicester, UK

fYear

2012

fDate

18-20 July 2012

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

This paper proposes a simple scheme to optimise the end-to-end user throughput of small, multi-hop wireless networks. The scheme which involves the introduction of small delays between successive packet transmissions at the source node has been tested on an indoor wireless mesh testbed for uni-directional flows of data traffic with nodes that use Chirp Spread Spectrum technology. Results from a series of novel experiments confirm the effectiveness of the technique to significantly improve the throughput of multi-hop wireless networks.

Keywords

delays; spread spectrum communication; telecommunication traffic; wireless mesh networks; chirp spread spectrum technology; data traffic; delays; indoor wireless mesh testbed; multihop wireless networks; packet transmissions; unidirectional flows; Delay; Floors; Optimization; Spread spectrum communication; Throughput; Wireless networks; Chirp Spread Spectrum; mesh networks; multi-hop wireless networks; throughput optimisation; wireless testbed;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communication Systems, Networks & Digital Signal Processing (CSNDSP), 2012 8th International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Poznan

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-1472-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CSNDSP.2012.6292710

Filename

6292710