Bandwidth Allocation in Wireless Mesh Network Using Efficient Path Selection Scheme
Karunya Rathan · International Review on Computers and Software (IRECOS) · 2015
Wireless Mesh Network (WMN) is a type of communication network comprises of radio nodes formed in a mesh topology. WMN is an essential network to provide internet access and wireless connections to remote areas and metropolitan cities. Being a part of Internet services the mesh network must support extended multimedia applications to all its mesh clients. For a network it is necessary to afford efficient Quality-of-Service (QoS). Searching a new route with maximum bandwidth is one of the major troubles to support QoS in mesh networks. Owing to interference among various paths the network bandwidth is a well-known bottleneck metric in wireless mesh networks. In this research, a novel path weight algorithm is proposed in order to capture the information of available bandwidth. Also, an efficient path routing protocol is presented which is based on the novel path weight algorithm can satisfy the consistency and loop-freeness of the network. The consistency property assures that each mesh client creates a proper data packet forwarding decision; therefore a packet does travel through the correct path. The experimental results show that the proposed path weight protocol provides high throughput paths.