3rd International ICST Conference on Broadband Communications, Networks, and Systems

Research Article

Multipath Selection in Multi-radio Mesh Networks

  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.1109/BROADNETS.2006.4374421,
        author={Irfan Sheriff and Elizabeth Belding-Royer},
        title={Multipath Selection in Multi-radio Mesh Networks},
        proceedings={3rd International ICST Conference on Broadband Communications, Networks, and Systems},
        publisher={IEEE},
        proceedings_a={BROADNETS},
        year={2006},
        month={10},
        keywords={},
        doi={10.1109/BROADNETS.2006.4374421}
    }
    
  • Irfan Sheriff
    Elizabeth Belding-Royer
    Year: 2006
    Multipath Selection in Multi-radio Mesh Networks
    BROADNETS
    IEEE
    DOI: 10.1109/BROADNETS.2006.4374421
Irfan Sheriff,*, Elizabeth Belding-Royer1,*
  • 1: Department of Computer Science, University of California, Santa Barbara
*Contact email: isheriff@cs.ucsb.edu, ebelding@cs.ucsb.edu

Abstract

Research has shown that multi-radio multi-channel mesh networks provide significant capacity gains over single-radio mesh networks. Traditional single path routing can lead to poor utilization of the available channels in these networks. Opportunistic multipath routing can better exploit the available channel diversity in a multi-radio network. The goal of this paper is to select multiple paths that, when used concurrently, provide high end-to-end throughput. To this end, we present a metric for multipath selection in multi-radio networks. We evaluate the metric through simulations in Qualnet and show that intelligent multipath routing significantly outperforms single path routing in multi-radio mesh networks.