Performance Evaluation of WMNs for Normal and Uniform Distribution of Mesh Clients Using WMN-PSOSA Simulation System

Abstract

Wireless Mesh Networks (WMNs) have many advantages such as low cost and increased high-speed wireless Internet connectivity, therefore WMNs are becoming an important networking infrastructure. In our previous work, we implemented a Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) based simulation system for node placement in WMNs, called WMN-PSO. Also, we implemented a simulation system based on Simulated Annealing (SA) for solving node placement problem in WMNs, called WMN-SA. In this paper, we implement a hybrid simulation system based on PSO and SA, called WMN-PSOSA. We evaluate the performance of WMN-PSOSA by conducting computer simulations considering Normal and Uniform distributions of mesh clients. Simulation results show that WMN-PSOSA performs better for Normal distribution compared with the case of Uniform distribution.