High-Throughput Multicast Routing Metrics in Wireless Mesh Networks

The stationary nature of nodes in a mesh network has shifted the main design goal of routing protocols from maintaining connectivity between source and destination nodes to finding high-throughput paths between them. In recent years, numerous link-quality-based routing metrics have been proposed for choosing high-throughput paths for unicast protocols. In this paper we study routing metrics for high-throughput tree or mesh construction in multicast protocols. We show that there is a fundamental difference between unicast and multicast routing in how data packets are transmitted at the link layer, and accordingly there is a difference in how the routing metrics for each of these primitives are designed. We adapt certain routing metrics for unicast for high-throughput multicast routing and propose news ones not previously used for high-throughput. We then study the performance improvement achieved by using different link-quality-based routing metrics via extensive simulation and experi...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2006
• Where: ICDCS
• Authors: Sabyasachi Roy, Dimitrios Koutsonikolas, Saumitra M. Das, Y. Charlie Hu
• Keywords: Distributed And Parallel Computing, ICDCS 2006, Link-quality-based Routing Metrics, Multicast Routing, Routing Metrics