Strategies and a new technique of load balancing in wireless mesh networks

Abstract

With the explosive growth of the Internet, wireless mesh networks have become the best technology solution with large network coverage, easy deployment, and minimum cost. Because of their high performance, fairness and load balancing in WMNs become the key technology for WMNs by ameliorating the strategy, assuring the best network quality and avoiding the congestion. As a key technology for WMN, load balancing can improve network quality and ameliorate strategy by minimizing the traffic rate in the network. Although much researchers are focused on load balancing in WMNs, the neighborhood load and minimum weigh path in multi-radio/multi-channel have not taken into account the requirements of load balancing. In this paper, we propose a minimum weight path load routing metric in multi-radio/multi-channel. Through simulation results, we demonstrate that our new routing metric satisfies the requirements compared with some existing routing metrics.