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With the features provided by wireless mesh networks (WMN) and the increasing number of users, the Quality of Service (QoS) has become essential to support multimedia applications. In addition, employing the multichannel approach has led to the improvement of the network performance. However, selecting a path with the maximum available bandwidth to transmit data from the source to the destination...
The support of delay-sensitive applications like VoIP, video conferencing, video streaming, etc. on scheduled mesh networks requires careful configuration of routing and scheduling. We formulate a delay-optimal joint routing and scheduling optimization problem that minimizes the maximum average delay perceived by any flow under the physical interference model. Due to the non-convex nature of this...
In this paper we propose the channel assignment scheme for multi-channel wireless mesh network (WMN), where each mesh router is equipped with multiple radio interfaces. In real WMN the number of radio interfaces is much higher than the number of non-overlapping channels, which causes a lot of connections between mesh nodes operate on the same radio channel. Increasing number of simultaneous transmissions...
To resolve channel interference and "Deafness" problem in cognitive wireless mesh network, a new Cross-layer Design based on Link Quality for Cognitive Wireless Mesh Networks is proposed. When the node chooses the channel, it is not only in accordance with the rank of channels, but also based on link quality. In this way, cross-layer technology can be effectively achieved, and network performance...
Routing in Wireless Mesh Algorithm is concerned with finding “good” source destination paths and has been an active research area since many years. Much of the work is focused on the improvement of global resources, or on the performance of individual transfers. Either case, the routing problem can be casted as a multi-objective with objectives such as load-balancing, end-to-end delay, and path capacity...
Mobile Wireless Mesh Networks (MWMNs) not only can provide high-bandwidth services for a large number of users, but also offers a good solution to the last-mile problems. However, the abundant net flow resulted from the great number of users may lead to the network traffic jam. To solve this problem, we proposed an Adaptive Situation-Aware (ASA) routing metric. We also designed a load balance scheme...
This paper addresses the problem of optimal gateways selection and route selection to Internet in backbone wireless mesh networks (WMNs) where each mesh router (MR) is equipped with multiple radio interfaces and a subset of nodes serve as gateways to Internet. Several schemes have been proposed to route packets in WMNs or to select appropriate gateways to connect clients to Internet. However, most...
In this work, we consider the goal of scheduling the maximum number of voice calls in a TDMA-based multi-radio, multi-channel mesh network. One of the main challenges to achieve this goal is the difficulty in providing strict (packet-level) delay guarantees for voice traffic in capacity limited multi-hop wireless networks. In this context, we propose DelayCheck, an online centralized scheduling and...
We consider anycast routing to improve the quality of communications in multi-gateway wireless mesh networks. A centralized gateway and route selection scheme is proposed that tries to maximize the end-to-end probability of success and minimize the end-to-end delay of all active traffic flows in the network. The proposed scheme employs a novel route quality metric that is based on the effects of interference...
Load balancing in wireless mesh networks (WMNs) is one of the major design goals for any routing protocol. In this paper, we propose AntMesh, an efficient data forwarding scheme, specifically designed for load balancing in multi-radio infrastructure WMNs. As the foundation of AntMesh, we use Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) in which artificial ants (agents) perform the routing and data forwarding to...
In this paper we devise efficient optimization techniques to find optimal routing and scheduling policies for wireless ad hoc networks in the presence of multi-user interference and cooperative transmissions. Our focus is to assess the impact of interference among distinct data flows on optimal routing paths and related transmission schedules. In our reference scenario, all nodes have a single antenna...
Routing metric plays a vital role in the performance of routing protocols for multi-interface WMN. How to capture the traffic interference more precisely and improve both the capacity and real-time of WMN become difficult problems on the design of routing metrics. In this paper, we propose a new interference-delay aware routing metric for multi-interface WMN, called IDA metric. The IDA metric captures...
In this paper we investigate link scheduling for Wireless Mesh Networks (WMNs) carrying real-time (i.e., delay-constrained) traffic. We show that the problem of computing a conflict-free link schedule with end-to-end delay constraints can be formulated as a mixed-integer non linear problem that can be optimally solved in reasonable time (i.e., minutes) for relatively large WMNs (up to 20–30 nodes)...
We present our initial work on the design and implementation of an efficient routing architecture for wireless mesh networks (WMNs). We have proposed two routing schemes namely AMIRA and AntMesh, which provide efficient data forwarding for improved load-balancing and reduced interference in single and multi-radio infrastructure mesh networks. Both of our proposed schemes are derived from the principle...
As an emerging technology, wireless mesh networks are making significant progress in the area of wireless networks in recent years. However, the nature of sharing transmission medium makes it challenging to fully exploit these networks. In an attempt to improve the radio resource utilization, several routing metrics have been specifically designed for wireless mesh networks. However none of these...
Recently, the Wireless Mesh Networks (WMNs) has gained momentum as a new broadband internet access technology, where most of the traffic is heading towards the gateway, as users need to access the internet and other wired resources. However, increasing the network capacity is still an open issue. One way to increase the network capacity is to equip each mesh router with multi-radio and turn each interface...
Wireless mesh network has recently emerged as a promising technology for next-generation wireless network. Many important applications, such as audio/video conferencing, require multicast communication with quality-of-service (QoS) guarantee. In this paper, QoS multicast routing in wireless mesh networks are investigated. The paper studies TDMA-based timeslot allocation, and presents an effective...
Implementing multiple channels among the multi-radio nodes of wireless mesh networks (WMNs) improve the capacity of the network. In this paper, we propose channel aware routing metric (CARM) as a new routing metric that facilitates the use of available channels in 802.11 WMNs. It chooses a route that has better link quality, reduced switching delay and better channel diversity. Unlike all the other...
This paper proposes a tabu search (TS) based optimization approach to search a minimum-interference multicast tree which satisfies the end-to-end delay constraint and optimizes the usage of the scarce radio network resource in wireless mesh networks. The path-oriented encoding method is adopted and each candidate solution is represented by a tree data structure (i.e., a set of paths). Since we expect...
Wireless mesh networks (WMNs) technologies which accede to the advantages of ad hoc networks have received much attention. Transmission power control and routing selections are critical issues in the past researches of ad hoc networks. Variable transmission power levels impact the node connectivity and affect routing selections. Further, different power levels cause different network spatial reusability...
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