Title
Search-based routing in wireless mesh network.
Abstract
Wireless technology is emerging as a key technology for the future networks. Wireless mesh networks (WMNs) have emerged as an indispensable technology for deployment of wireless services for various applications in personal, enterprise, and metropolitan areas. Researchers are working actively in different fields of WMNs for providing better services. Routing protocols play a vital role in WMNs to provide reliable configuration and maintenance of topology of the network. Designing a suitable cost metric for routing protocols to provide quality links for data transmission is the backbone of WMNs. Many cost metrics have been proposed for WMNs and is still an active research topic as new performance metrics need to be discovered due to the dynamics of this field. This paper considers the genetic algorithm-based routing technique for WMN. We have studied the existing cost metrics and proposed a genetic algorithm technique for routing in WMN. To evaluate the genetic algorithm, and to determine the relative performance of the genetic algorithm in the context of routing in WMN, we carry out experiments on two test systems. We have evaluated the quality of the results produced by our algorithm with the traditional hop count metric results. Our results show that routing in WMN using genetic algorithm produces better results as compared to traditional hop count metric results. Finally, we carry out a detailed analysis of results, which help us in gaining an insight into the suitability of genetic algorithm for routing in WMN.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1186/s13638-017-0818-2
EURASIP J. Wireless Comm. and Networking
Keywords
Field
DocType
Genetic algorithm, Wireless mesh network, WMN, Routing, Optimal path
Hazy Sighted Link State Routing Protocol,Link-state routing protocol,Dynamic Source Routing,Computer science,Static routing,Computer network,Wireless Routing Protocol,Wireless mesh network,Geographic routing,Distributed computing,Routing protocol
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
2017
1
1687-1499
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.63
10
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Khalid Mahmood127039.43
Babar Nazir213011.66
Iftikhar Ahmad Khan310.96
Nadir Shah411614.76