On accurate measurement of link quality in multi-hop wireless mesh networks Export

@inproceedings{citeulike:897600, abstract = {This paper presents a highly efficient and accurate link-quality measurement framework, called EAR ( Efficient and Accurate link-quality monito R), for multi-hop wireless mesh networks, that has several salient features. First, it exploits three complementary measurement schemes: passive, cooperative, and active monitoring. EAR maximizes the measurement accuracy by (i) dynamically and adaptively adopting one of these schemes and (ii) opportunistically exploiting the nicast application traffic present in the network, while minimizing the measurement overhead. Second, EAR effectively identifies the existence of wireless link asymmetry by measuring the quality of each link in both directions of the link, thus improving the utilization of network capacity by up to 114\%. Finally, its reliance on both the network layer and the IEEE 802.11-based device driver solutions makes EAR easily deployable in existing multi-hop wireless mesh networks without system recompilation or MAC firmware modification. EAR has been evaluated extensively via both ns -2-based simulation and experimentation on our Linux-based implementation. Both simulation and experimentation results have shown EAR to provide highly accurate link-quality measurements with minimum overhead.}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, author = {Kim, Kyu H. and Shin, Kang G.}, booktitle = {MobiCom '06: Proceedings of the 12th annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking}, citeulike-article-id = {897600}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1161095}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1161089.1161095}, doi = {10.1145/1161089.1161095}, isbn = {1-59593-286-0}, keywords = {metrics, phy, routing}, location = {Los Angeles, CA, USA}, pages = {38--49}, posted-at = {2009-10-27 08:20:21}, priority = {2}, publisher = {ACM}, title = {On accurate measurement of link quality in multi-hop wireless mesh networks}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1161089.1161095}, year = {2006} }

TY - CONF ID - citeulike:897600 L3 - citeulike-article-id:897600 N2 - This paper presents a highly efficient and accurate link-quality measurement framework, called EAR ( Efficient and Accurate link-quality monito R), for multi-hop wireless mesh networks, that has several salient features. First, it exploits three complementary measurement schemes: passive, cooperative, and active monitoring. EAR maximizes the measurement accuracy by (i) dynamically and adaptively adopting one of these schemes and (ii) opportunistically exploiting the nicast application traffic present in the network, while minimizing the measurement overhead. Second, EAR effectively identifies the existence of wireless link asymmetry by measuring the quality of each link in both directions of the link, thus improving the utilization of network capacity by up to 114%. Finally, its reliance on both the network layer and the IEEE 802.11-based device driver solutions makes EAR easily deployable in existing multi-hop wireless mesh networks without system recompilation or MAC firmware modification. EAR has been evaluated extensively via both ns -2-based simulation and experimentation on our Linux-based implementation. Both simulation and experimentation results have shown EAR to provide highly accurate link-quality measurements with minimum overhead. CY - Los Angeles, CA, USA SN - 1-59593-286-0 AD - New York, NY, USA EP - 49 TI - On accurate measurement of link quality in multi-hop wireless mesh networks PB - ACM T2 - MobiCom '06: Proceedings of the 12th annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking SP - 38 KW - metrics KW - phy KW - routing AU - Kim, Kyu AU - Shin, Kang PY - 2006/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1161089.1161095 ER -