Routing with load balancing in wireless Ad hoc networks
MSWIM '01 Proceedings of the 4th ACM international workshop on Modeling, analysis and simulation of wireless and mobile systems
On the impact of alternate path routing for load balancing in mobile ad hoc networks
MobiHoc '00 Proceedings of the 1st ACM international symposium on Mobile ad hoc networking & computing
Port-based Multihomed Mobile IPv6: Load-balancing in Mobile Ad hoc Networks
LCN '07 Proceedings of the 32nd IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks
Load-balanced mesh router migration for wireless mesh networks
Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing
The nominal capacity of wireless mesh networks
IEEE Wireless Communications
Load balanced routing in mobile ad hoc networks
Computer Communications
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In wireless multihop networks such as MANETs or Wireless Mesh Networks (WMN), an Internet gateway (IGW) is a node that provides Internet connectivity, linking the wireless network with the global Internet. Congestion around the IGW represents a potential bottleneck for all Internet traffic that has to pass through the IGW. To alleviate this problem, the common solution is to have multiple IGWs in the network. However in order to take advantage of the capacity provided by multiple gateways, the routing protocol utilized must efficiently load balance the traffic among available IGWs such that the network performance is optimized. In this context, it is questioned to which extent it is possible to enhance the performance by utilizing a load balancing metric instead for the traditional shortest path metric. Furthermore, what are the factors that may set an upper limit for the performance that can be achieved. The aim of our investigation is to seek the answers to these questions through extensive simulations of a large number of random topologies. While a number of other studies have reported potential benefits of load balancing with some specific network topologies, to the best of our knowledge none have conducted similar studies covering a larger number of random topologies.