Paper Info
Title
A queuing modeling approach for Load-Aware Route Selection in heterogeneous mesh networks
Abstract
Wireless mesh networks are primarily used to provide In- ternet access by sharing the Internet connections of a lim- ited number of gateways. If traffic is routed in the mesh without considering load distribution, unevenly network congestion may arise and some gateways may rapidly get overloaded, which causes a significant reduction of the net- work capacity. To address this issue, in this paper we firstly develop a queuing network model that accurately predicts the residual capacity of paths in heterogeneous mesh net- works, and precisely identify network bottlenecks. By tak- ing advantage of this model, we design a novel Load-Aware Route Selection algorithm, named LARS, which improves the network capacity. This objective is obtained by allowing each mesh node to distribute the traffic load among multi- ple gateways in order to ensure evenly utilization of Inter- net connections. Simulation results show that LARS signif- icantly outperforms shortest path routing using contention- aware link costs, achieving throughput improvements of up to 210% in the considered network scenarios.
Year
DOI
Venue
2009
10.1109/WOWMOM.2009.5282474
WoWMoM
Keywords
Field
DocType
Internet,queueing theory,radio access networks,telecommunication network routing,Internet access,contentionaware link costs,heterogeneous mesh networks,load-aware route selection algorithm,network bottleneck identification,network congestion,queuing modeling approach,queuing network model,traffic routing,wireless mesh networks
Switched mesh,Mesh networking,Computer science,Computer network,Order One Network Protocol,Network congestion,Wireless mesh network,Internet access,Shared mesh,Distributed computing,The Internet
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-4244-4439-7
10
0.59
References 
Authors
15
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Raffaele Bruno1723.65
Marco Conti21490114.70
Antonio Pinizzotto3100.59