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When planning the structure of a backhaul mesh network for public access, it is common to introduce redundant nodes in the mesh network. These are called redundant, because they do not increase the network capacity under normal operation, due to the shortest-path metric of the routing protocol. Instead, their sole purpose is to increase the network reliability by providing failover links when a link...
Wireless mesh networks used for broadband access may be equipped with multiple Internet gateways. Using airtime metric as the main criterion for path selection is an effective method for achieving load-balancing in such a multi-homed mesh network. In this paper, we describe how the radio-aware path selection using airtime as a metric can be implemented in order to achieve this functionality, based...
This work presents a simple method to estimate IEEE 802.11 distributed coordination function (DCF) service time. This is the total amount of time needed to transmit a given frame, which is defined as the duration from the instant a node starts the transmission, until the instant when the transmission task effectively finishes. We are motivated by the fact that IEEE 802.11 DCF does not provide time-bounded...
In this paper, we present MRL-QRP, a multi-agent reinforcement learning based routing protocol with QoS support for wireless sensor networks. In MRL-QRP, sensor node cooperatively computes QoS routes using a distributed value function - distributed reinforcement learning algorithm (DVFDRL). Global optimization can be achieved by using locally observed network information and limited exchanging of...
Recent advancements in wireless communications and electronics have caused the emergence of a new type of networks called Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). WSNs have some unique features such as autonomy, low cost, tiny size, simple and fast deployment and high scalability, and many applications have been forecasted for them. In recent years, many WSN-based applications were proposed for Intelligent...
This paper addresses the trend in wireless sensor network applications of increasing node density and multi-hop communications that result into extremely challenging design constraints. SSAS, an adaptive hybrid localised sink-oriented Routing/MAC protocol is proposed. It offers a self-configuration scalable solution for large random sensor networks and attempts to alleviate multi-hop congestion problems...
Research on wireless sensor networks has recently received much attention as they offer an advantage of monitoring various kinds of environment by sensing physical phenomenon. Among various issues, energy consumption is one of the most important criteria for routing protocol in wireless sensor networks (WSNs). This paper introduces an energy efficient clustering algorithm for mobile sensor network...
Wireless mesh networks will play an important role in the next-generation wireless communication systems as it can provide wide coverage and scalable broadband Internet access services. However, congestion in such networks may lead to throughput degradation, packet loss and longer transmission delay. Therefore, routing and traffic forwarding schemes which are aware of the congestion status of a wireless...
Although several congestion aware routing protocols have been proposed for mobile ad-hoc networks (MANETs) over the last decade, the effect of the different traffic types has not been considered in any routing protocol. Distinguishing different types of traffic that each node deals with in QoS-aware MANETs and responding to routing protocol requests correspondingly can potentially increase the performance...
This paper proposes a multipath routing protocol called cross-layered multipath AODV (CM-AODV), which selects multiple routes on demand based on the signal-to-interference plus noise ratio (SINR) measured at the physical layer. Note that AODV (ad hoc on-demand distance vector) is one of the most popular routing protocols for mobile ad hoc networks. Each time a route request (RREQ) message is forwarded...
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