Robust Routing and Scheduling in Wireless Mesh Networks under Dynamic Traffic Conditions

Joint routing-and-scheduling has been considered in wireless mesh networks for its significant performance improvement. While existing work assumes it, accurate traffic information is usually not available due to traffic dynamics, as well as inaccuracy and delay in its measurement and dissemination. In addition, the joint routing and scheduling usually requires a centralized controller to calculate the optimal routing and scheduling and distribute such policies to all the nodes. Thus, even if the accurate traffic information is always available, the central controller has to compute the routing and scheduling repeatedly because the traffic demands change continuously. This leads to prohibitive computation and distribution overhead. Therefore, in this paper, we propose a joint routing-scheduling scheme that achieves robust performance under traffic information uncertainty. In particular, it achieves worst-case optimal performance under a range of traffic conditions. This unique feature validates the use of centralized routing and scheduling in wireless mesh networks. As long as the traffic variation is within the estimation range, the routing and scheduling do not need to be recomputed and redistributed. Through extensive simulations, we show that our proposed scheme meets the objective (i.e., optimizes the worst-case performance). Moreover, although it only guarantees the worst-case performance in theory, its average performance is also good. For example, our proposed scheme can perform better than a fixed optimal routing and scheduling scheme in more than 80 percent of 500 random traffic instances. Our scheme provides insights on the desired properties of multipath routing, namely, spatial reuse and load balancing.     

I2TS 03 Dynamic Metric Choice Routing for Wireless Mesh Networks

The increasing demand of multimedia applications requires a new conduct of routing protocols for Wireless Mesh Networks (WMN). It is necessary to support the minimum requirements for Quality of Service (QoS). In this work we propose an extension to the proactive Optimized Link State Routing (OLSR) protocol that differentiates the data traffic and multimedia traffic, in order to provide quality of service and support to applications which use TCP as their transport protocol. The proposal performance, called OLSR Dynamic Choice (OLSR-DC), is evaluated using the Network Simulator     

QoS Routing in Wireless Mesh Networks

An H-hop interference model is proposed, where the transmission is successfully received if no other nodes that are within H hops from the receiver are transmitting on the same channel simultaneously. Based on this model. the interference-free property in the Time division multiple access Wireless mesh networks is analyzed. A heuristic algorithm with max-rain time slots reservation strategy is developed to get the maximum bandwidth of a given path. And it is used in the bandwidth guaranteed routing protocol to find a path for a connection with bidirectional bandwidth requirement. Extensive simulations show that our routing protocol decreases the blocking ratios significantly compared with the shortest path routing.     

Routing Metrics and Protocols for Wireless Mesh Networks

WMNs are low-cost access networks built on cooperative routing over a backbone composed of stationary wireless routers. WMNs must deal with the highly unstable wireless medium. Therefore, the design of algorithms that consider link quality to choose the best routes are enabling routing metrics and protocols to evolve. In this work, we analyze the state of the art in WMN metrics and propose a taxonomy for WMN routing protocols. Performance measurements for a WMN, deployed using various routing metrics, are presented and corroborate our analysis.     

Orthogonal Rendezvous Routing Protocol for Wireless Mesh Networks

Routing in multi-hop wireless networks involves the indirection from a persistent name (or ID) to a locator. Concepts such as coordinate space embedding help reduce the number and dynamism complexity of bindings and state needed for this indirection. Routing protocols which do not use such concepts often tend to flood packets during route discovery or dissemination, and hence have limited scalability. In this paper, we introduce Orthogonal Rendezvous Routing Protocol (ORRP) for meshed wireless networks. ORRP is a lightweight-but-scalable routing protocol utilizing directional communications (such as directional antennas or free-space-optical transceivers) to relax information requirements such as coordinate space embedding and node localization. The ORRP source and ORRP destination send route discovery and route dissemination packets respectively in locally-chosen orthogonal directions. Connectivity happens when these paths intersect (i.e., rendezvous). We show that ORRP achieves connectivity with high probability even in sparse networks with voids. ORRP scales well without imposing DHT-like graph structures (eg: trees, rings, torus etc). The total state information required is O(N^3/2) for N-node networks, and the state is uniformly distributed. ORRP does not resort to flooding either in route discovery or dissemination. The price paid by ORRP is suboptimality in terms of path stretch compared to the shortest path; however we characterize the average penalty and find that it is not severe.     

多并发流无线网状网中的机会路由算法

现有机会路由选择未考虑数据流的分布,可能使候选节点空闲或过载,导致网络吞吐量提升有限.本文将多并发流的机会路由描述成一个凸优化问题,基于对偶和子梯度方法,提出分布式联合候选节点选择和速率分配的多流机会路由算法(Opportunistic Routing for Multi-Flow,ORMF).该算法迭代进行流速率分配,并在速率分配过程中完成候选节点选择.实验结果表明,与基于期望传输次数和期望任意传输次数指标的机会路由相比,ORMF平均可提高33.4%和27.9%的汇聚吞吐量.     

Quality-Aware Routing Metrics for Time-Varying Wireless Mesh Networks

This paper considers the problem of selecting good paths in a wireless mesh network. It is well-known that picking the path with the smallest number of hops between two nodes often leads to poor performance, because such paths tend to use links that could have marginal quality. As a result, quality-aware routing metrics are desired for networks that are built solely from wireless radios. Previous work has developed metrics (such as ETX) that work well when wireless channel conditions are relatively static (DeCouto , 2003), but typical wireless channels experience variations at many time-scales. For example, channels may have low average packet loss ratios, but with high variability, implying that metrics that use the mean loss ratio will perform poorly. In this paper, we describe two new metrics, called modified expected number of transmissions (mETX) and effective number of transmissions (ENT) that work well under a wide variety of channel conditions. In addition to analyzing and evaluating the performance of these metrics, we provide a unified geometric interpretation for wireless quality-aware routing metrics. Empirical observations of a real-world wireless mesh network suggest that mETX and ENT could achieve a 50% reduction in the average packet loss rate compared with ETX     

Adaptive Optimization-based Routing in Wireless Mesh Networks

Routing is a critical component in wireless mesh networks. The inherent shared-medium nature of the wireless mesh networks, however, poses fundamental challenges to the design of effective routing policies that are optimal with respect to the resource utilization. Node churns and traffic fluctuations exacerbate such a problem. In this paper, we propose a novel adaptive routing algorithm for multiple subscribers in wireless mesh networks. We view a mesh network with multiple nodes as an entity that optimizes some global utility function constrained by the underlying MAC layer interference. By solving the optimization problem, the network is driven to an efficient operating point with a certain routing policies for each node. We then use this operating point information to adaptively find better paths, which is able to gear the network towards optimal routing. Further, we take the fluctuations of the network into consideration and thus render our algorithm more robust for a variety of network situations. Simulations demonstrate the efficiency and efficacy of our algorithm.     

Asymptotically Optimal Energy-Aware Routing for Multihop Wireless Networks With Renewable Energy Sources

In this paper, we develop a model to characterize the performance of multihop radio networks in the presence of energy constraints and design routing algorithms to optimally utilize the available energy. The energy model allows us to consider different types of energy sources in heterogeneous environments. The proposed algorithm is shown to achieve a competitive ratio (i.e., the ratio of the performance of any offline algorithm that has knowledge of all past and future packet arrivals to the performance of our online algorithm) that is asymptotically optimal with respect to the number of nodes in the network. The algorithm assumes no statistical information on packet arrivals and can easily be incorporated into existing routing schemes (e.g., proactive or on-demand methodologies) in a distributed fashion. Simulation results confirm that the algorithm performs very well in terms of maximizing the throughput of an energy-constrained network. Further, a new threshold-based scheme is proposed to reduce the routing overhead while incurring only minimum performance degradation.     

无线 Mesh 网络中多路径路由算法的研究

针对无线 Mesh 网络中传统单径路由协议的不足,提出一种基于动态源路由协议(DSR)的多路径路由算法(IDSR).该算法通过在路由发现过程引入带宽和最大转发次数等限制条件,保证了多条路由请求信息的获取;通过在节点不相交的多径选择过程中引入多 QoS 路由代价函数,有效地实现多路径的选择;通过提供多 QoS 保障,使算法具有较高的求解效率,避免了单径路由的不稳定等特点.实验结果表明,IDSR 算法在无线 Mesh 网络的路由中具有更好的 QoS 性能.     

无线网状网络路由安全协议综述

无线网状网络(Wireless Mesh Networks,WMN)是近年来得到长足发展的一项新兴技术。它是一种分布式的无线网络,并将Ad hoc以及WLAN的优势结合起来,因此具有很广阔的应用前景。然而,目前的WMN技术还不够成熟,存在诸多安全问题,如何完善网络中的安全机制就成了目前研究的重点之一。本文从介绍WMN的基本结构开始,逐步介绍其安全性所面临的问题,以及各种安全的路由协议,最后对一些路由安全协议进行对比分析。     

Monitoring Assisted Robust Routing in Wireless Mesh Networks

In this paper, we present a monitoring assisted robust routing scheme for wireless mesh networks which exploits the broadcast nature of wireless transmissions at special routers with added monitoring functionalities. These routers passively listen to the transmissions in their neighborhood and compare the routing behavior against the routing state collectively maintained by them. If any inconsistency is found, as a result of software/hardware malfunction, these routers try to determine the node causing it and recover from it in a timely fashion. The scheme is developed for wireless mesh networks where the communication overhead is a critical issue. The performance evaluation of our scheme shows considerable improvement in reliability (i.e., delivery ratio achieved by standard routing protocols) with minimal overhead under situations of malfunctions.     

无线Mesh网中一种基于综合准则的DSR扩展路由方法

无线Mesh网(Wireless Mesh Network:WMN)是一种新型的分布式宽带无线网络结构,相对于典型的移动Ad hoc网络,该网络由于具有节点移动性小、不受电池动力限制等特点,从而导致传统的移动Ad hoc路由协议不再适用.为了满足WMN多媒体业务传输的性能要求,WMN路由必须满足负载均衡、路由容错与网络容量等目标.本文首先介绍了当前几种已有的WMN路由协议,在此基础上,提出了一种适用于WMN的基于综合准则的动态源路由(Dynamic Source Routing:DSR)扩展路由方法,该方法综合考虑了投递率、剩余带宽以及节点负载等因素.分析与仿真结果表明,该算法极大地提高了网络吞吐量,并且达到了负载均衡的设计目标.     

无线Mesh网络跨层路由技术研究

无线Mesh网络(WMN:wireless mesh networks)作为一种新型的无线网络,成为近几年研究的热点。由于无线信道不稳定等特性,如何设计WMN的路由协议成为决定其性能的关键因素之一。近几年来的研究表明,通过跨层设计的方式综合其他层的重要参数来实现路由选择,能够很好地解决这一难题。介绍了几种先进的跨层路由设计方案,总结了现有的跨层路由协议的优缺点,并对如何设计并实现跨层路由协议进行了分析和总结。     

WMN中一种基于干扰感知的负载均衡路由协议

无线信道干扰和负载分布的不均衡严重影响无线Mesh网络吞吐量、端到端延时和资源利用率。在已有基于信噪比和邻居节点个数的干扰模型基础上,进一步研究了无线Mesh网络的链路干扰。在综合考虑了无线Mesh网络流间干扰和和流内干扰的基础上,提出路由判据PIL（Path Interfer-ence Level）。在此基础上,提出一种新的基于干扰感知的负载均衡路由协议IA-DSR（Interference-Aware DSR）。IA-DSR考虑无线网络拥塞并选择受到干扰最小的路径。仿真结果表明,在不显著增加开销的情况下,IA-DSR可以有效地提高网络的整体吞吐量,降低网络端到端时延和丢包率。     

无线Mesh网络路由协议——多射频质量源路由（MR-LQSR）协议

无线Mesh网络使用传统的基于最短路径的移动Ad Hoc网络路由协议并不能获得良好的性能,为此提出了一种新的无线Mesh网路由协议——MR—LQSR算法及新的路由判据——WCETT．能在吞吐量与延时之间获得一种平衡。