Load-balanced routing for mesh networks

  • Authors:
  • Yaling Yang;Jun Wang;Robin Kravets

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign;University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign;University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign

  • Venue:
  • ACM SIGMOBILE Mobile Computing and Communications Review
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

Due to the static nature of nodes, in mesh networks, a poor choice of paths may remain unchanged for a long time and create hot spots. Hence, it is very important to design path weight functions (also called routing metrics) to facilitate load-balanced routing in mesh networks. Such path weight functions (PWFs) must reflect the shared nature of wireless channels and support easy calculation of loop-free paths. In this abstract, we present our theoretical studies of the requirements on PWFs and design the first PWF, called Metric of Interference and Channel-switching (MIC), that satisfies these requirements. Our simulation results show that MIC's performance is substantially better than existing PWFs. (See our technical report [5] for more details.)