Capacity of Ad Hoc wireless networks
Proceedings of the 7th annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking
Ad-hoc On-Demand Distance Vector Routing
WMCSA '99 Proceedings of the Second IEEE Workshop on Mobile Computer Systems and Applications
Source-Tree Routing in Wireless Networks
ICNP '99 Proceedings of the Seventh Annual International Conference on Network Protocols
IEEE 802.11 MAC Protocol over Wireless Mesh Networks: Problems and Perspectives
AINA '05 Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications - Volume 2
The nominal capacity of wireless mesh networks
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The IEEE 802.11 standard defines a medium access control protocol for wireless local area networks (WLANs). In typical WLANs, access points (APs) are connected with one another in a wired manner. As a way to loosen this restriction wireless mesh networks (WMNs), which are rather independent of a backbone infrastructure, is emerging. Due to their inherent characteristics unlike ad hoc networks, it is unreasonable that the ad hoc network routing protocols are directly applied for the WMNs without any modification. The tree-based routing protocol (TRP) defined in the IEEE 802.11s is one of the routing protocols used in WMNs. The TRP, however, forwards data on the only one active path. In this paper, we propose a flexible tree-based routing protocol with a mesh relaying node (TRP-MRN) in WMNs. The TRP-MRN provides a concurrent multi-path establishment algorithm. We analyze the end-to-end delay of the TRP and the TRP-MRN and show that the TRP-MRN can effectively reduce the end-to-end delay and provide alternative routes via simulations.