A Routing Metric for Load-Balancing in Wireless Mesh Networks

This paper proposes a routing metric known as Weighted Cumulative Expected Transmission Time with Load Balancing (WCETT-LB) for wireless mesh networks. WCETTT-LB enhances the basic Weighted Cumulative Expected Transmission Time (WCETT) by incorporating load balancing into the routing metric. Unlike other existing schemes proposed for load balancing for wireless mesh networks, WCETT-LB implements load balancing at mesh routers. WCETT-LB provides a congestion aware routing and traffic splitting mechanism to achieve global load balancing in the network. The preliminary qualitative and quantitative analyses show the significance of the proposed scheme.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: AINA
• Authors: Liang Ma, Mieso K. Denko
• Keywords: AINA 2007, Computer Networks, Cumulative Expected Transmission, Load Balancing, Wireless Mesh Networks