A load-aware routing metric for wireless mesh networks Export

@proceedings{citeulike:3969822, abstract = {Routing metrics play a critical role in wireless mesh networks (WMNs). Several metrics have already been proposed but none of them can effectively capture both local traffic load and hidden node issues. This paper proposes a load and interference-aware routing metric for wireless mesh networks, named contention window based (CWB) metric. Our metric assigns weights to individual links based on both channel utilization and the average contention window used on these links. The individual link weights are combined into path metric that accounts for load balancing and interference between links that use the same channel. Thus the CWB metric helps the routing protocol to balance traffic and improve network capacity by avoiding routing traffic through congested areas. The preliminary quantitative experiments show significant improvement over hop-count based method when using the proposed metric.}, author = {Nguyen, Lan T. and Beuran, R. and Shinoda, Y.}, booktitle = {Computers and Communications, 2008. ISCC 2008. IEEE Symposium on}, citeulike-article-id = {3969822}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ISCC.2008.4625626}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=4625626}, doi = {10.1109/ISCC.2008.4625626}, journal = {Computers and Communications, 2008. ISCC 2008. IEEE Symposium on}, keywords = {based, contention, contention-window, cwb, interference, load, mesh, mesh-network, metric, network, protocol, routing, routing-metric, routing-protocol, routingprotocol, window, wireless, wireless-mesh, wireless-mesh-network, wireless-network, wmn}, pages = {429--435}, posted-at = {2009-06-24 15:27:02}, priority = {4}, title = {A load-aware routing metric for wireless mesh networks}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ISCC.2008.4625626}, year = {2008} }

TY - CONF ID - citeulike:3969822 L3 - citeulike-article-id:3969822 N2 - Routing metrics play a critical role in wireless mesh networks (WMNs). Several metrics have already been proposed but none of them can effectively capture both local traffic load and hidden node issues. This paper proposes a load and interference-aware routing metric for wireless mesh networks, named contention window based (CWB) metric. Our metric assigns weights to individual links based on both channel utilization and the average contention window used on these links. The individual link weights are combined into path metric that accounts for load balancing and interference between links that use the same channel. Thus the CWB metric helps the routing protocol to balance traffic and improve network capacity by avoiding routing traffic through congested areas. The preliminary quantitative experiments show significant improvement over hop-count based method when using the proposed metric. JF - Computers and Communications, 2008. ISCC 2008. IEEE Symposium on EP - 435 TI - A load-aware routing metric for wireless mesh networks T2 - Computers and Communications, 2008. ISCC 2008. IEEE Symposium on SP - 429 KW - based KW - contention KW - contention-window KW - cwb KW - interference KW - load KW - mesh KW - mesh-network KW - metric KW - network KW - protocol KW - routing KW - routing-metric KW - routing-protocol KW - routingprotocol KW - window KW - wireless KW - wireless-mesh KW - wireless-mesh-network KW - wireless-network KW - wmn AU - Nguyen, Lan AU - Beuran, R AU - Shinoda, Y PY - 2008/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ISCC.2008.4625626 ER -