Title
An Efficient Load Balancing Scheme For Multi-Gateways In Wireless Mesh Networks
Abstract
In Wireless Mesh Networks (WMNs), we usually deploy multiple Internet Gateways (IGWs) to improve the capacity of WMNs. As most of the traffic is oriented towards the Internet and may not be distributed evenly among different IGWs, some IGWs may suffer from bottleneck problem. To solve the IGW bottleneck problem, we propose an efficient scheme to balance the load among different IGWs within a WMN. Our proposed load-balancing scheme consists of two parts: a traffic load calculation module and a traffic load migration algorithm. The IGW can judge whether the congestion has occurred or will occur by using a linear smoothing forecasting method. When the IGW detects that the congestion has occurred or will occur, it will firstly select another available IGW that has the lightest traffic load as the secondary IGW and then inform some mesh routers (MPs) which have been selected by using the Knapsack Algorithm to change to the secondary IGW. The MPs can return to their primary IGW by using a regression algorithm. Our Qualnet 5.0 experiment results show that our proposed scheme gives up to 18% end-to-end delay improvement compared with the existing schemes.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.3745/JIPS.2013.9.3.365
JOURNAL OF INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEMS
Keywords
Field
DocType
Wireless Mesh Network, Internet Gateway, Multi-Gateway Multi-Root, Load Balancing
Bottleneck,Traffic load,Load balancing (computing),Computer science,Computer network,QualNet,Smoothing,Knapsack problem,Wireless mesh network,The Internet,Distributed computing
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
9
3
1976-913X
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
12
0.87
10
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Junping Liu1120.87
Sang-Hwa Chung223448.13