A New Routing Technique Based on Fuzzy Logic for Multi-Hop Wireless Mesh Networks
Er. Pushpender · IOSR Journal of Engineering · 2013
WMN technology is different from traditional wireless networks due to its several characteristics such as increased reliability, low installation costs, large coverage area, automatic network connectivity etc. WMN is multi-hop network consisting of routers and gateways and mobile nodes.Routing in such a heterogeneous environment has put enormous challenges to participating nodes and routers to deliver packet from one corner to other.The difficulty in managing or controlling the link quality and reliability in wireless mesh networks makes it very hard to find and maintain a good and stable path from the source to the destination.Also, the wireless medium is broadcast in nature, transmission on one link may interfere with the transmissions on the neighboring links.This broadcast medium contention brings fundamental constraints on the routing performance, such as throughput, delay, mobility, bandwidth etc.It is very challenging to achieve optimal routing performance.In WMN, any node may compromise the routing protocol functionality by disrupting the route discovery process.In this paper, we understand the various routing problems related to throughput, bandwidth, and mobility.In this paper, we have proposed a new routing technique that is totally network dependent and will remove all the routing problems in WMNs.