On Optimizing Gateway Placement for Throughput in Wireless Mesh Networks

<p/> <p>An innovative gateway placement scheme is proposed for wireless mesh networks (WMNs) in this paper. It determines the location of a gateway based on a new performance metric called multihop traffic-flow weight (MTW). The MTW computation takes into account many factors that impact...

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Main Authors: Wang Xudong, Manoj BS, Rao Ramesh, Zhou Ping
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2010-01-01
Series:EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking
Online Access:http://jwcn.eurasipjournals.com/content/2010/368423
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author Wang Xudong
Manoj BS
Rao Ramesh
Zhou Ping
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Rao Ramesh
Zhou Ping
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description <p/> <p>An innovative gateway placement scheme is proposed for wireless mesh networks (WMNs) in this paper. It determines the location of a gateway based on a new performance metric called multihop traffic-flow weight (MTW). The MTW computation takes into account many factors that impact the throughput of WMNs, that is, the number of mesh routers, the number of mesh clients, the number of gateways, traffic demand from mesh clients, locations of gateways, and possible interference among gateways. Thus, the proposed gateway placement scheme provides a framework of significantly improving throughput of WMNs through proper placement of gateways. To evaluate the performance of the new gateway placement scheme, a nonasymptotic throughput of WMNs is derived by considering TDMA scheduling. The derivations also provide a guideline for designing scheduling schemes of WMNs. Numeric results show that the proposed gateway placement scheme constantly outperforms other schemes by a large margin.</p>
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spelling doaj.art-1be77cac52a5482e9150aa6d93e5a57b2022-12-21T20:26:23ZengSpringerOpenEURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking1687-14721687-14992010-01-0120101368423On Optimizing Gateway Placement for Throughput in Wireless Mesh NetworksWang XudongManoj BSRao RameshZhou Ping<p/> <p>An innovative gateway placement scheme is proposed for wireless mesh networks (WMNs) in this paper. It determines the location of a gateway based on a new performance metric called multihop traffic-flow weight (MTW). The MTW computation takes into account many factors that impact the throughput of WMNs, that is, the number of mesh routers, the number of mesh clients, the number of gateways, traffic demand from mesh clients, locations of gateways, and possible interference among gateways. Thus, the proposed gateway placement scheme provides a framework of significantly improving throughput of WMNs through proper placement of gateways. To evaluate the performance of the new gateway placement scheme, a nonasymptotic throughput of WMNs is derived by considering TDMA scheduling. The derivations also provide a guideline for designing scheduling schemes of WMNs. Numeric results show that the proposed gateway placement scheme constantly outperforms other schemes by a large margin.</p>http://jwcn.eurasipjournals.com/content/2010/368423
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