The real gain of cross-layer routing in wireless mesh networks

Authors:
Luigi Iannone;Konstantin Kabassanov;Serge Fdida
Affiliations:
Université Paris VI, Paris, France;Université Paris VI, Paris, France;Université Paris VI, Paris, France
Venue:
REALMAN '06 Proceedings of the 2nd international workshop on Multi-hop ad hoc networks: from theory to reality
Year:
2006

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Abstract

Despite the large amount of research performed on wireless networking, test-beds are still limited in number and size. This paper shows the results of our efforts in building and deploying a test-bed, using the Wireless Mesh Net-work (WMN) architecture. This platform is composed of MeshDVboxes our custom Wireless Mesh Router (WMR), built up from off-the-shelf hardware and open source software. As a routing protocol we use two versions (with and without cross-layer metrics) of MeshDV a simple routing protocol expressly designed for WMNs. Our tests show that in cases where traditional hop-count metric compromises network connectivity, cross-layer routing has still non-negligible performance.