A New Interference-aware Routing Metric for Wireless Mesh Networks

Wei Feng; Suili Feng; Yuehua Ding; Yongzhong Zhang

8th International Conference on Communications and Networking in China

Research Article

A New Interference-aware Routing Metric for Wireless Mesh Networks

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@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1109/ChinaCom.2013.6694643,
    author={Wei Feng and Suili Feng and Yuehua Ding and Yongzhong Zhang},
    title={A New Interference-aware Routing Metric for Wireless Mesh Networks},
    proceedings={8th International Conference on Communications and Networking in China},
    publisher={IEEE},
    proceedings_a={CHINACOM},
    year={2013},
    month={11},
    keywords={routing metric; interference; load-balancing; isotonic;},
    doi={10.1109/ChinaCom.2013.6694643}
}

Wei Feng
Suili Feng
Yuehua Ding
Yongzhong Zhang
Year: 2013
A New Interference-aware Routing Metric for Wireless Mesh Networks
CHINACOM
IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ChinaCom.2013.6694643

Wei Feng¹^,*, Suili Feng¹, Yuehua Ding¹, Yongzhong Zhang²

1: South China University of Technology
2: China Electronics Technology Group Corporation

*Contact email: 396843354@qq.com

Abstract

This paper proposes an interference-aware routing metric function in wireless mesh networks (WMNs) in order to select a better path to route the packets. Different from the existing metrics, the new metric function has two advantages. Firstly, it applies cross-layer design to take inter-flow interference, intra-flow interference and load balancing into consideration to capture the characteristics of wireless networks. Secondly, it is proved isotonic by using virtual network decomposition, so that the optimal loop-free path can be found by efficient algorithms with polynomial complexity. The simulation results demonstrate that the proposed metric performs significantly better than the existing routing metrics.

Keywords: routing metric; interference; load-balancing; isotonic;

Published: 2013-11-14
Publisher: IEEE

: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ChinaCom.2013.6694643