DCRP: a scalable path selection and forwarding scheme for IEEE 802.11s wireless mesh networks

Abstract

The IEEE 802.11s standard specifies a mesh technology to be supported by IEEE 802.11 devices. Among the limitations caused by this heritage, we focus on the low scalability of the current IEEE 802.11s standard mechanisms. As a main contribution to the related research field, this article presents the DHT-based Cluster Routing Protocol (DCRP). DCRP addresses IEEE 802.11s' scalability issues by exploiting both Distributed Hash Tables and Clustering schemes, which have proved to be effective in scaling wireless (e.g., MANETs) and wired (e.g., P2P) networking systems. DCRP was implemented and compared with the HWMP through simulation for different scalability parameters and performance metrics. Simulation results indicate that the proposed scheme improves performance in terms of packet delivery ratio, end-to-end delay, throughput, and overhead.

Wireless MESH network routing protocol based on link state information

“…In the wireless network environment based on IEEE 802.11standard 13 , the distributed coordination function is used as the MAC layer protocol, and CSMA/CA is used as the transmission mechanism 14,15 , which will inevitably lead to the degradation of link transmission quality due to collisions, resulting in an increase in packet loss rate and delay. The status information of the node of MNLSI routing is given in Table 1, which can reflect the transmission status between the node and its neighboring nodes to a certain extent.…”

Limited area broadcast for warning message delivery over vehicular ad-hoc networks

“…Depending on the method used to choose a broadcast relay, each scheme can be classified into categories such as probabilistic-based broadcast, counter-based broadcast, density-based broadcast, and distance-based broadcast. To learn about other interesting issues related to broadcast forwarding and routing, readers can refer to [21][22][23][24][25][26].…”