Based on the Cross Layer Integrated Metric and Change of the Trigger Mechanism WMN Routing Protocol Design and Simulation
Fei Chen, Xiaochun Hu, Yan Chen · 2012
To improve the throughput and transmission quality of routing protocols for Wireless Mesh Networks, this paper presents a cross-layer routing protocol MCL-AODV for the wireless Mesh backbone networks. The protocol takes the quality of MAC layer link, node queue congestion degrees and wireless transmission distance into account through the cross-layer operating system, to optimize the routing selection process by creating a new composite routing metric and reduce the routing overhead of management control by changing the trigger mechanism of HELLO message. Simulation results show that MCL-AODV protocol reduces the average routing overhead and end-to-end delay, improves network throughput and packet delivery ratio.