EPTR: expected path throughput based routing protocol for wireless mesh network

作者：Deng, Xiaoheng^*; He, Lifang; Liu, Qiang; Li, Xu; Cai, Lin; Chen, Zhigang

来源：Wireless Networks, 2016, 22(3): 839-854.

DOI：10.1007/s11276-015-1003-3

• Wireless mesh network
• Signal-to-noise ratio
• Expected path throughput
• Cross layer design
• Routing protocol

For effective routing in wireless mesh networks, we proposed a routing metric, expected path throughput (EPT), and a routing protocol, expected path throughput routing protocol (EPTR), to maximize the network throughput . The routing metric EPT is based on the estimated available bandwidth of the routing path, considering the link quality, the inter- and intra-flow interference and the path length. To calculate the EPT of a routing path, we first calculate the expected bandwidth of the link and the clique, and then consider the decay caused by the path length. Based on EPT, a distributed routing protocol EPTR is proposed, aiming to balance the network load and maximize the network throughput. Extensive simulations are conducted to evaluate the performance of the proposed solution. The results show that the proposed EPTR can effectively balance the network load, achieve high network throughput, and out-perform the existing routing protocols with the routing metrics previously proposed for wireless mesh networks.

• 出版日期2016-4
• 单位中南大学