Energy-Delay Based Route Request Scheme for Load Balanced Routing in Wireless Mesh Networks
D S Keerthi, A. Shobha Rani, T. G. Basavaraju · 2019
The tremendous growth in the usage of internet technology has pawed way for advancement of diverse wireless networks. One of the domain of wireless networks that have gathered a lot of attention from researchers is Wireless Mesh Network (WMN). WMN is preferred because of its numerous advantages like better coverage area, communication with other networks, cost effectiveness, increased network capacity and is compatible with all IEEE 802.11 standards. Low Capacity, management of the traffic and gateway nodes and end to end fairness problem are the major issues in the employment of WMNs. In order to reduce the existing challenges in WMNs load balancing plays a vital role. In our work we have proposed a load balancing protocol to overcome the problem of congestion using residual energy and delay. The simulation results are derived and they prove that our proposed protocol enhances the performance and life time of WMN compared to standard protocol with reference to residual energy, throughput, packets received jitter and delay.