Gateway-aware routing for wireless mesh networks

Prashanth A. K. Acharya, David L. Johnson, Elizabeth M. Belding
2010 The 7th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Systems (IEEE MASS 2010)  
Wireless mesh networks (WMNs) provide an attractive method to provide Internet connectivity in developing regions. Traditional mesh routing protocols are designed to find high quality/throughput multihop routes in the network. However, these solutions do not consider constraints imposed by the capacity at the gateway, often the bottleneck in such rural area networks. In this paper, we demonstrate the importance of intelligent choice of gateways in WMNs. We present the design of a new
more » ... re routing metric that picks high throughput routes in the presence of heterogeneous gateways. Our evaluation in simulations as well as on a testbed show significant increase in network throughput.
doi:10.1109/mass.2010.5663893 dblp:conf/mass/AcharyaJB10 fatcat:gbz3wdwlnvbm3akhkwao2fcceu