Routing Metrics and Protocols for Wireless Mesh Networks

Author

Campista, Miguel Elias M ; Esposito, Pedro Miguel ; Moraes, Igor M. ; Costa, Luís Henrique M K ; Duarte, Otto Carlos M B ; Passos, Diego G. ; De Albuquerque, Célio Vinicius N ; Saade, Débora Christina M ; Rubinstein, Marcelo G.

Author_Institution

Univ. Fed. do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro

Volume

22

Issue

1

fYear

2008

Firstpage

6

Lastpage

12

Abstract

WMNs are low-cost access networks built on cooperative routing over a backbone composed of stationary wireless routers. WMNs must deal with the highly unstable wireless medium. Therefore, the design of algorithms that consider link quality to choose the best routes are enabling routing metrics and protocols to evolve. In this work, we analyze the state of the art in WMN metrics and propose a taxonomy for WMN routing protocols. Performance measurements for a WMN, deployed using various routing metrics, are presented and corroborate our analysis.

Keywords

radio access networks; routing protocols; low-cost access networks; routing metrics; routing protocols; stationary wireless routers; wireless mesh networks; Ad hoc networks; Algorithm design and analysis; Bandwidth; Broadcasting; Network topology; Probes; Routing protocols; Spine; Wireless application protocol; Wireless mesh networks;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Network, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0890-8044

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/MNET.2008.4435897

Filename

4435897