Building an overlay for wireless mesh network
W.P. Santika, M. Ghifary, Adi Indrayanto, Iping Supriana · 2011
The research and development of the wireless mesh networks (WMNs) now still popular. P2P was an old technique, but it is coming back for building an virtual overlay network on top of physical network. Open Chord as varian of Chord is a tool based on distributed hash table that can be used to build overlay. In swarm intelligence presented the particle swarm optimization (PSO) algorithm. One application of the algorithm named Sensor PSO for square area sensor network. We had modified this application for free rectangle area network. In this paper we report a study how to build an overlay network based on Open Chord. The objective of our study is to use overlay network to efficiently find the resources currently available in the WMNs. Our application firstly read the output of SensorPSO for building an underlay network, then built a virtual overlay on top of the underlay. The virtual overlay network resulted can be used for routing simulation.