An Integrated Metrics Based Extended Dynamic Source Routing Protocol for Wireless Mesh Networks

Author

Shen, Qiang ; Fang, Xuming ; Shan, Ying

Author_Institution

Provincial Key Lab. of Mobile Commun., Southwest Jiaotong Univ., Sichuan

Volume

3

fYear

2006

fDate

25-28 June 2006

Firstpage

1457

Lastpage

1461

Abstract

Wireless mesh networks (WMN) is a new distributed broadband access network. Compared with the typical mobile ad hoc network, it is with less mobility and usually not powered by the battery. Therefore, the traditional mobile ad hoc routing protocols are no longer suitable for WMN. In order to meet the performance requirements of multimedia traffic transmission, the routing protocol designed for WMN must take into account the load balance, fault tolerant and throughput, etc. This paper firstly introduces typical structures and characteristics of WMN, and several relevant WMN routing protocols. Then a method of integrated metrics based extended dynamic source routing (EDSR) protocol is proposed. The analysis and simulation results show that the proposed EDSR protocol improves the throughput of WMN significantly, which reaches the target of load balance simultaneously

Keywords

fault tolerance; radio access networks; routing protocols; telecommunication network topology; EDSR protocol; WMN; distributed broadband access network; extended dynamic source routing; fault tolerance; integrated metrics; wireless mesh network; Access protocols; Analytical models; Batteries; Laboratories; Mobile ad hoc networks; Mobile communication; Routing protocols; Throughput; Wireless LAN; Wireless mesh networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communications, Circuits and Systems Proceedings, 2006 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Guilin

Print_ISBN

0-7803-9584-0

Electronic_ISBN

0-7803-9585-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCCAS.2006.284948

Filename

4064174