• Title/Summary/Keyword: Wireless mesh networks (WMN)

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A Design of Wireless Mesh Networks based middleware (Wireless Mesh Networks 기반 미들웨어 설계)

  • Im, Hyeok-Jin;Kang, Hyun-Joong;Ju, Hui-Dong;Lee, Myeong-Hun;Yoe, Hyun
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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    • 2007.10a
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    • pp.453-456
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    • 2007
  • In this paper, we describes a design of Wireless Mesh Network based middleware that applied into USN(Ubiquitous Sensor Networks). WMN based middleware is a technique which links data between widely distributed sensor devices and WMN for context-awareness. The use of WMN base middleware in this paper makes possible communication on insufficiently network constructed area by use of WMN. WMN based middleware also anaylze events comprehensively that originated from specific sensor device. Based on the result from analyzed data with predetermined value WMN based middleware will given an order to designated actuator devices. Middleware operate each function of sensor network management and application service separately.

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Channel Assignment, Link Scheduling, Routing, and Rate Control for Multi-Channel Wireless Mesh Networks with Directional Antennas

  • Roh, Hee-Tae;Lee, Jang-Won
    • Journal of Communications and Networks
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    • v.18 no.6
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    • pp.884-891
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    • 2016
  • The wireless mesh network (WMN) has attracted significant interests as a broadband wireless network to provide ubiquitous wireless access for broadband services. Especially with incorporating multiple orthogonal channels and multiple directional antennas into the WMN, each node can communicate with its neighbor nodes simultaneously without interference between them. However, as we allow more freedom, we need a more sophisticated algorithm to fully utilize it and developing such an algorithm is not easy in general. In this paper, we study a joint channel assignment, link scheduling, routing, and rate control problem for the WMN with multiple orthogonal channels and multiple directional antennas. This problem is inherently hard to solve, since the problem is formulated as a mixed integer nonlinear problem (MINLP). However, despite of its inherent difficulty, we develop an algorithm to solve the problem by using the generalized Benders decomposition approach [2]. The simulation results show the proposed algorithm provides the optimal solution to maximize the network utility, which is defined as the sum of utilities of all sessions.

Performance Evaluation of Directional AODV Routing Protocol for Wireless Mesh Networks (무선 메쉬 네트워크를 위한 방향섬 AODV 라우팅 프로토콜의 성능 평가)

  • Choi, Jae-In;Kim, Dae-Hwan;Le, Anh Ngoc;Lee, In-Soo;Cho, You-Ze
    • The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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    • v.33 no.9B
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    • pp.795-801
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    • 2008
  • Wireless Mesh Networks (WMNs) are popular due to their low cost and rapid deployment. Currently, many WMN researchers often considers the use of ad-hoc routing protocols because WMNs are similar to the ad-hoc networks. Some of currently deployed WMNs consider to use on-demand routing protocols such as Ad-hoc On-demand Distance Vector (AODV) and Dynamic Source Routing (DSR). But, AODV are not appropriate for Wireless Mesh Networks (WMNs), because flooding-based route discovery is both redundant and expensive in terms of control message overhead. In this paper, we propose a directional AODV (D-AODV) routing protocol based on hop count to a gateway. We implement the D-AODV routing protocol and evaluate the performance of the D-AODV on the testbed. The measurement results show that the D-AODV can enhance the network throughput by reducing the routing overhead.

A Minimum Interference Channel Assignment Algorithm for Performance Improvement of Large-Scale Wireless Mesh Networks (대규모 무선 메쉬 네트워크의 성능 향상을 위한 최소 간섭 채널 할당 알고리즘)

  • Ryu, Min-Woo;Cha, Si-Ho;Cho, Kuk-Hyun
    • The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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    • v.34 no.10B
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    • pp.964-972
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    • 2009
  • Wireless mesh network (WMN) is emerging a future core technology to resolve many problems derived from exist wireless networks by employing multi-interface and multi-channel. Ability to utilize multiple channels in WMNs substantially increases the effective bandwidth available to wireless network nodes. However, minimum interference channel assignment algorithms are required to use the effective bandwidth in multi-channel environments. This paper proposes a cluster-based minimum interference channel assignment (MI-CA) algorithm to improve the performance of WMN. The MI-CA algorithm is consists of Inter-Cluster and Intra-Cluster Intrchannel assignment between clusters and in the internal clusters, respectively. The Inter-Cluster channel assignment assigns a barebone channel to cluster heads and border nodes based on minimum spanning tree (MST) and the Intra-Cluster channel assignment minimizes channel interference by reassigning ortasgonal channels between cluster mespann. Our simheation results show that MI-CA can improve the performance of WMNs by minimizing channel interference.

Empirical Evaluation of Wireless Mesh Network Equipments (무선 메쉬 네트워크 장비의 실험적인 성능 검증)

  • Lee, Ok-Hwan;Kim, Seong-Kwan;Lee, Hee-Young;Choi, Sung-Hyun
    • The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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    • v.33 no.9B
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    • pp.760-766
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    • 2008
  • As a backbone network, wireless mesh network (WMN) aims to provide reliable high throughput network connectivity to wireless users. Recent research has focused on routing and channel allocation to increase the capacity of wireless mesh backbones. Wireless mesh networking is an attractive solution for home, community, and enterprise networks as it is a self-configuring, instantly deployable, and lowcost networking system. In this paper, we empirically evaluate and analyze charateristic of WMN to establish WMN testbed by measurement. We use laptops and net4826 Soekris board widely used. Soekris boards are equipped with one network interface card (NIC) or above in our measurements. We also use paket generator, routing demon tools and so on. Throughout this measurements, we show limitation of Soekris board and software we use, and suggest guideline to establish WMN.

Trust based Secure Reliable Route Discovery in Wireless Mesh Networks

  • Navmani, TM;Yogesh, P
    • KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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    • v.13 no.7
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    • pp.3386-3411
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    • 2019
  • Secured and reliable routing is a crucial factor for improving the performance of Wireless Mesh Networks (WMN) since these networks are susceptible to many types of attacks. The existing assumption about the internal nodes in wireless mesh networks is that they cooperate well during the forwarding of packets all the time. However, it is not always true due to the presence of malicious and mistrustful nodes. Hence, it is essential to establish a secure, reliable and stable route between a source node and a destination node in WMN. In this paper, a trust based secure routing algorithm is proposed for enhancing security and reliability of WMN, which contains cross layer and subject logic based reliable reputation scheme with security tag model for providing effective secured routing. This model uses only the trusted nodes with the forwarding reliability of data transmission and it isolates the malicious nodes from the providing path. Moreover, every node in this model is assigned with a security tag that is used for efficient authentication. Thus, by combining authentication, trust and subject logic, the proposed approach is capable of choosing the trusted nodes effectively to participate in forwarding the packets of trustful peer nodes successfully. The simulation results obtained from this work show that the proposed routing protocol provides optimal network performance in terms of security and packet delivery ratio.

A Study on Multicast Routing Metric for Wireless Mesh Network (WMN의 멀티캐스트 라우팅 메트릭에 대한 연구)

  • Gao, Hui;Lee, Hyung-Ok;Nam, Ji-Seung
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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    • 2012.01a
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    • pp.101-103
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    • 2012
  • This paper gives an introduction to multicast in wireless mesh networks. The factors to be addressed when designing a multicast protocol for wireless mesh network are presented. Emphases are paid on selection of multicast routing metrics in wireless mesh networks. Also details of adapting these metrics to gain high-throughput multicast in wireless mesh network are described in the paper.

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A Tree based Channel Assignment Protocol for Considering the Performance Anomaly in IEEE 802.11 Wireless Mesh Networks (IEEE 802.11 무선 메쉬 네트워크에서의 성능 이상 현상 고려를 위한 트리 기반 채널 할당 프로토콜)

  • Kim, Sok-Hyong;Kim, Dong-Wook;Suh, Young-Joo
    • Journal of KIISE:Computing Practices and Letters
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    • v.16 no.3
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    • pp.341-345
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    • 2010
  • WMN is one of efficient solutions to provide Internet services for users by forming wireless backbone networks with wireless links. The dominant technology for WMNs is the IEEE 802.11, which provides multi-channel and multi-rate capabilities. One of important issues in WMNs is the network capacity and it is essential to design a multi-channel protocol that leverages the network capacity. However, when wireless links that use different data rates operate on the common channel, the performance of high-rate links is severely degraded by the presence of the low-rate links, which is often referred as performance anomaly. In this paper, we propose a Tree-based Channel Assignment (TreeCA) protocol to mitigate the performance anomaly problem by distributing data rates over multiple channels. TreeCA performs channel assignments based on the tree WMN architecture to accommodate the Internet traffics efficiently. Parent nodes on the tree distribute their child nodes over multiple channels so that the performance anomaly is reduced. Through simulations, we observed that the proposed TreeCA outperforms the existing multi-channel protocols for WMNs.

CAMR: Congestion-Aware Multi-Path Routing Protocol for Wireless Mesh Networks

  • Jang, Seowoo;Kang, Seok-Gu;Yoon, Sung-Guk
    • Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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    • v.12 no.1
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    • pp.411-419
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    • 2017
  • The Wireless Mesh Network (WMN) is a multi-hop wireless network consisting of mesh routers and clients, where the mesh routers have minimal mobility and form the backbone. The WMN is primarily designed to access outer network to mesh clients through backhaul gateways. As traffic converges on the gateways, traffic hotspots are likely to form in the neighborhood of the gateways. In this paper, we propose Congestion Aware Multi-path Routing (CAMR) protocol to tackle this problem. Upon congestion, CAMR divides the clients under a mesh STA into two groups and returns a different path for each group. The CAMR protocol triggers multi-path routing in such a manner that the packet reordering problem is avoided. Through simulations, we show that CAMR improves the performance of the WMN in terms of throughput, delay and packet drop ratio.

A Study on Improvement of AODV for Hybrid Wireless Mesh Networks (혼합형 무선 메시 네트워크를 위한 AODV 개선 연구)

  • Kim, Ho-Cheal
    • Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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    • v.16 no.8
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    • pp.943-953
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    • 2013
  • By the enormous increase in mobile nodes and diverse service requests on wireless networks, wireless mesh network(WMN) takes an interest as the solution for such requests. However, lots of issues which should be solved to deploy WMN are still remained. In the network layer, the performance improvement of routing protocols is the major issue of nowadays researches. WMN can be easily deployed by use of protocols for mobile ad-hoc networks(MANET) because it is much similar with MANET in multi-hop wireless routing and which node plays as host and router concurrently. Unfortunately, most routing protocols for MANET have drawbacks such as large traffic overhead and long delay time for route discovery due to the network extension. They are major factors of performance degradation of WMN and most researches are focused on them. In this paper, domain-based AODV which is amended AODV to be applied in hybrid WMN is proposed. The proposed scheme divides a hybrid WMN as several domains and performs route discovery by header layer domain. Therefore it can reduce the distance for route discovery as much as average hop count between domain header and member nodes. From the simulation, domain-based AODV was showed slowly increasing delay time due to the network extension.