期刊名称：International Journal of Wireless & Mobile Networks
印刷版ISSN：0975-4679
电子版ISSN：0975-3834
出版年度：2010
卷号：2
期号：1
出版社：Academy & Industry Research Collaboration Center (AIRCC)
摘要：Wireless Mesh Networks (WMN) have different characteristics compared with the mobile ad hoc networks (MANET). The issue of Internet access with wireless mesh connectivity is a very important issue in the design of WMNs. In this paper, we propose a novel multi-paths routing framework for the Internet access through WMNs by using multiple access routers (ARs) simultaneously. Within this framework, an efficient load balancing scheme has been proposed to further increase the network performance. This load balancing scheme is named Reactive Load Balancing (RLB). Extensive simulation experiments have been carried out to validate the proposed solutions. The simulation results show a reasonable improvement on network throughput, especially, in a small size mesh network. The proposal is verified to be able to produce a lot of benefits to WMNs such as effective soft-handoff, throughput improvement, load balancing among ARs, etc.
