A New Gateway Location Protocol for Mesh Networks
Giresse M. Komba, Okuthe Paul Kogeda, T. Zuva · 2014
Wireless Mesh Network (WMN) is a promising technology that can provide broadband Internet access. Traffic often routed in Wireless Mesh Backbone (WMB). This also extended to the mesh clients and the Internet and forward to then to mesh gateways. Strategically providing efficient and supervising of WMN is a tedious task in connecting places gateway. In this paper, we provide a New Gateway Location Algorithm (NGLA) to address the challenges of gateway location in WMN. This algorithm incrementally identifies gateways, allocates mesh routers to recognize gateways and guarantees to find a feasible gateway location to satisfy the all Quality of Service (QoS) constraints. Simulation results of our proposed NGLA algorithm when compared with other algorithm outperform others with a large margin with 50% less gateway. Furthermore the NGLA is easy to implement thus, it can be employed for WMB.