Load-balanced multipath routing for wireless mesh networks: A step by step rate control approach

Hiroaki Morino, Hiroyuki Kawamura, Masugi Inoue, Tohru Sanefuji

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Abstract

Wireless mesh network has been increasingly attracting attentions as enabling technology not only for access network to the Internet but for application oriented network. To strengthen reliability of wireless mesh network, adaptive loadbalanced routing to avoid congestion will be the key technology. This paper presents a novel concept of multipath routing with load balancing capability based on periodical packet distribution rate control. Packet distribution rate of each route adapts to delay cost calculated by using channel utilization of base stations on this route. Compared with existing load-balanced routing, the advantage of the proposed scheme is that it adapts to both sparse networks and dense networks. Results of performance evaluation by computer simulation demonstrate the advantages of the proposed scheme quantitatively. They show that it reduces average end-to-end delay by about 30% compared to loadbalanced singlepath routing scheme and simple multipath routing scheme.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - 2009 International Symposium on Autonomous Decentralized Systems, ISADS 2009
Pages281-286
Number of pages6
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2009 Nov 23
Event2009 International Symposium on Autonomous Decentralized Systems, ISADS 2009 - Athens, Greece
Duration: 2009 Mar 232009 Mar 25

Publication series

NameProceedings - 2009 International Symposium on Autonomous Decentralized Systems, ISADS 2009

Conference

Conference2009 International Symposium on Autonomous Decentralized Systems, ISADS 2009
Country/TerritoryGreece
CityAthens
Period09/3/2309/3/25

Keywords

  • Channel utilization
  • Load balancing
  • Multichannel configuration
  • Multipath routing
  • Wireless mesh networks

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Computer Networks and Communications
  • Hardware and Architecture
  • Software

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