Paper Info
Title
An Experimental Study of Routing Metrics in 802.11n Wireless Mesh Networks
Abstract
In the recent past, link quality-based routing metrics, such as ETX and ETT, have been shown to significantly outperform the traditional hopcount metric in legacy 802.11a/b/g wireless mesh networks (WMNs). The new 802.11n standard introduces a number of enhancements at the MAC/PHY layers (MIMO technology, channel bonding, frame aggregation, and more aggressive modulation and coding schemes) marking the beginning of a new generation of 802.11 radios. In this paper, we conduct one of the first experimental studies of the performance of link quality-based routing metrics in a 21-node indoor 802.11n WMN. Our study reveals that the gains of link quality-based metrics over the hopcount metric in legacy 802.11 WMNs do not carry over in 802.11n MIMO WMNs. We analyze the causes of this behavior and make recommendations for the design of new routing metrics in 802.11n WMNs.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1109/TMC.2013.148
Mobile Computing, IEEE Transactions  
Keywords
Field
DocType
MIMO communication,telecommunication network routing,wireless LAN,wireless channels,wireless mesh networks,802.11n wireless mesh networks,ETT,ETX,MAC/PHY layers,MIMO WMN,MIMO technology,channel bonding,experimental study,frame aggregation,hopcount metric,link quality based routing metrics,802.11n,Wireless mesh networks,routing metrics,testbed,wireless mesh networks
Hazy Sighted Link State Routing Protocol,Link-state routing protocol,Dynamic Source Routing,Computer science,Policy-based routing,Computer network,Ad hoc wireless distribution service,Wireless Routing Protocol,Wireless mesh network,Metrics,Distributed computing
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
13
12
1536-1233
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
9
0.50
23
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ramanujan K. Sheshadri1444.31
Dimitrios Koutsonikolas274653.88