Title: A Hybrid Mesh Routing protocol for ubiquitous internet connectivity in hierarchical Wireless Mesh Networks

Authors: Bok-Nyong Park, June-Hyuk Kwon

Addresses: Operating Plan and Management Team, LG Telecom, 1600 Sangam-dong, Mapo-gu, Seoul 121-270, Korea. ' Planning Unit, LG Telecom, 1600 Sangam-dong, Mapo-gu, Seoul 121-270, Korea

Abstract: We propose a cross-layer-aware Hybrid Mesh Routing (HMR) protocol for the ubiquitous Internet connectivity in hierarchical Wireless Mesh Networks (WMNs) that can provide the Internet access for users by mesh routers. The HMR protocol applies two independent routing metrics to obtain high performance. The HMR is able to take advantage of each of those protocols strengths depending on the situation, and more suitable than other protocols in hierarchical hybrid WMNs by providing the benefits of both hop count and link quality metrics. Through simulations, we show that our schemes perform better than existing mechanisms in terms of various performance measures.

Keywords: hybrid mesh networks; wireless mesh networks; routing metrics; channel diversity; multi-radio; multi-channel; ubiquitous internet connectivity; cross-layer awareness; hierarchical WMNs; hop count; link quality; simulation.

DOI: 10.1504/IJAHUC.2011.038994

International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing, 2011 Vol.7 No.2, pp.77 - 86

Published online: 11 Mar 2011 *

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