Abstract:

A fundamental issue in supporting quality-of-service is the problem of identifying the maximum available bandwidth path in WMNs. Since Wireless Mesh Network has become an important edge network to provide Internet access to remote areas and wireless connections in a metropolitan scale. Due to interference among links, bandwidth, a well-known bottleneck metric in wired networks, is neither concave nor additive in wireless networks. A new path weight which captures the available
path bandwidth information is proposed. Hop-by-hop steering protocol based on the new trail weight satisfies the consistency and optimality requirements. The consistency property guarantees that each node makes a proper packet forwarding decision, so that a data packet does traverse over the intended path. This project shows that the proposed path weight outperforms existing path metrics in identifying high-throughput paths

Keywords:

Maximum Bandwidth Problem(MBP), Bandwidth forced Routing Problem(BCRP), Quality Of Service(QOS), Ad-hoc On-demand space Vector (AODV)