Load-Sensitive Traffic Balancing in Wireless Mesh Network
Although there is more than one access point (AP) in a wireless mesh network (WMN), the traffic load of each AP is quite different. An AP may be extremely busy during a particular period while the others are in very light load due to the inherent characteristic of routing algorithm of WMN.Traffic load concentrates on an AP may lead to network congestion, increase the packet loss rate and degrade the performance of network. It is very important to provide a mechanism to guide part of traffic load from busy area to light load APs and balance the traffic load of network. A novel traffic balancing mechanism is proposed to solve this problem. The mechanism discovers the heavy load nodes through a traffic load detection scheme, and broadcasts the load messages to every node. Then a node can choose communication paths according to the messages and avoid heavy load nodes or APs. The simulation results indicate that the traffic balancing mechanism can enhance the performance of WMN.
Wireless Mesh Network Traffic Balancing Traffic Load Detection
Xuyang Ding Mingyu Fan Xiaojun Lu Dayong Zhu Jiahao Wang
School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China ChengDu, SiChuan, China
国际会议
杭州
英文
560-563
2006-10-12（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）