A Survey on Routing Algorithms and Routing Metrics for Wireless Mesh Networks
Mohammad Siraj · 2014
Wireless Mesh Network (WMN) is an emerging wireless technology for various futuristic applications like video on demand, healthcare systems, disaster and emergency, modern intelligent transport systems, public security systems, broadband internet for home and campus networking. Routing is an important factor for forwarding a data packet from source node to destination node.Wireless routing is totally different than routing in a wired network. Routing metrics are a crucial part of routing protocols affecting the performance of wireless mesh networks (WMN). When the routing protocols are implemented, the routing metrics are allocated to various paths. Their job is to compute the best routing path. They are assimilated in routing protocols to enhance WMNs efficiency in terms of reliability, latency, throughput, error rate and cost. This paper presents a survey of important routing protocols and routing metrics for WMNs.