Hybrid routing protocol and effective channel allocation algorithm for wireless mesh networks

Abstract

Routing in a Hybrid Wireless Mesh Networks WMN is extremely challenging since the mesh clients are relatively resource constrained devices Hence the routes should preferably be established through high capacity mesh routers to achieve maximum routing performance For supporting real-time communications such as audio and newlineVideo, Quality of Service QoS provisioning in WMNs is significant Though the existing routing protocols in WMN select stable routes, they did not consider the specific metrics required for video streaming such as delay and bandwidth Congestion in WMN can result in significant performance degradation Effects of congestion include low network throughput and unacceptable packet delays Apart from congestion Interference is another major cause for performance degradation in WMN and affects both the sender and receiver of a wireless transmission From the existing works it is clear that there is no mechanism for avoiding both congestion and interference. newline newline