Highly dynamic Destination-Sequenced Distance-Vector routing (DSDV) for mobile computers
SIGCOMM '94 Proceedings of the conference on Communications architectures, protocols and applications
Power-aware routing in mobile ad hoc networks
MobiCom '98 Proceedings of the 4th annual ACM/IEEE international conference on Mobile computing and networking
Coping with communication gray zones in IEEE 802.11b based ad hoc networks
WOWMOM '02 Proceedings of the 5th ACM international workshop on Wireless mobile multimedia
Impact of interference on multi-hop wireless network performance
Proceedings of the 9th annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking
Comparison of routing metrics for static multi-hop wireless networks
Proceedings of the 2004 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communications
Wireless mesh networks: a survey
Computer Networks and ISDN Systems
The real gain of cross-layer routing in wireless mesh networks
REALMAN '06 Proceedings of the 2nd international workshop on Multi-hop ad hoc networks: from theory to reality
Principles and protocols for power control in wireless ad hoc networks
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
The real gain of cross-layer routing in wireless mesh networks
REALMAN '06 Proceedings of the 2nd international workshop on Multi-hop ad hoc networks: from theory to reality
The meshDVNet wireless mesh network test-bed
WiNTECH '06 Proceedings of the 1st international workshop on Wireless network testbeds, experimental evaluation & characterization
Evaluation of cross-layer rate-aware routing in a wireless mesh network test bed
EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking
CLEAR: A Cross-Layer Enhanced and Adaptive Routing Framework for Wireless Mesh Networks
Wireless Personal Communications: An International Journal
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Wireless Mesh Networks (WMNs) are an emerging architecture based on multi-hop transmission. ISPs considers WMNs as a potential future technology to offer broadband Internet access. Therefore, in WMNs, the throughput capacity of the wireless backbone becomes a key factor, limiting the scalability in terms of users able to effectively take advantage of the network. Increasing the effective throughput capacity will support WMNs become a very cost-effective solution for wireless ISPs.Based on the analysis of the theoretical capacity bound derived by Gupta et al., we propose MRS (Mesh Routing Strategy), a novel cross layer routing solution. MRS is specifically designed for Wireless Mesh Networks, where routing is challenging due to the unreliable wireless medium. Traditional routing paradigms are not able to overcome this issue, resulting in an average throughput experienced by the network far lower than the theoretical throughput capacity bound. This paper shows how a cross-layer approach will consistently improve the throughput experienced by large-scale multi-hop networks. We show through simulation that our proposal increases throughput while reducing the average transmitted power. Furthermore, MRS limits interference and gets closer to the theoretical throughput capacity bound.