Design and simulation of WMN routing protocol based on the cross layer integrated metric and change of the trigger mechanism
Taoshen Li · Journal of Guangxi University · 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.By taking MAC layer link quality,congestion of the node queue and wireless transmission distance into account,the proposed algorithm optimizes the routing process by creating a new 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,and improves network throughput and packet delivery ratio.