Promoting wired links in wireless mesh networks: an efficient engineering solution.
Wireless Mesh Networks (WMNs) cannot completely guarantee good performance of traffic sources such as video streaming. To improve the network performance, this study proposes an efficient engineering solution named Wireless-to-Ethernet-Mesh-Portal-Passageway (WEMPP) that allows effective use of wire...
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| author | Behrang Barekatain Kaamran Raahemifar Alfonso Ariza Quintana Alicia Triviño Cabrera |
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| description | Wireless Mesh Networks (WMNs) cannot completely guarantee good performance of traffic sources such as video streaming. To improve the network performance, this study proposes an efficient engineering solution named Wireless-to-Ethernet-Mesh-Portal-Passageway (WEMPP) that allows effective use of wired communication in WMNs. WEMPP permits transmitting data through wired and stable paths even when the destination is in the same network as the source (Intra-traffic). Tested with four popular routing protocols (Optimized Link State Routing or OLSR as a proactive protocol, Dynamic MANET On-demand or DYMO as a reactive protocol, DYMO with spanning tree ability and HWMP), WEMPP considerably decreases the end-to-end delay, jitter, contentions and interferences on nodes, even when the network size or density varies. WEMPP is also cost-effective and increases the network throughput. Moreover, in contrast to solutions proposed by previous studies, WEMPP is easily implemented by modifying the firmware of the actual Ethernet hardware without altering the routing protocols and/or the functionality of the IP/MAC/Upper layers. In fact, there is no need for modifying the functionalities of other mesh components in order to work with WEMPPs. The results of this study show that WEMPP significantly increases the performance of all routing protocols, thus leading to better video quality on nodes. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-d4b9fe938ba44c64bcdcb0f6ebd7ef732022-12-21T18:48:17ZengPublic Library of Science (PLoS)PLoS ONE1932-62032015-01-01103e011967910.1371/journal.pone.0119679Promoting wired links in wireless mesh networks: an efficient engineering solution.Behrang BarekatainKaamran RaahemifarAlfonso Ariza QuintanaAlicia Triviño CabreraWireless Mesh Networks (WMNs) cannot completely guarantee good performance of traffic sources such as video streaming. To improve the network performance, this study proposes an efficient engineering solution named Wireless-to-Ethernet-Mesh-Portal-Passageway (WEMPP) that allows effective use of wired communication in WMNs. WEMPP permits transmitting data through wired and stable paths even when the destination is in the same network as the source (Intra-traffic). Tested with four popular routing protocols (Optimized Link State Routing or OLSR as a proactive protocol, Dynamic MANET On-demand or DYMO as a reactive protocol, DYMO with spanning tree ability and HWMP), WEMPP considerably decreases the end-to-end delay, jitter, contentions and interferences on nodes, even when the network size or density varies. WEMPP is also cost-effective and increases the network throughput. Moreover, in contrast to solutions proposed by previous studies, WEMPP is easily implemented by modifying the firmware of the actual Ethernet hardware without altering the routing protocols and/or the functionality of the IP/MAC/Upper layers. In fact, there is no need for modifying the functionalities of other mesh components in order to work with WEMPPs. The results of this study show that WEMPP significantly increases the performance of all routing protocols, thus leading to better video quality on nodes.http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4368720?pdf=render |
| spellingShingle | Behrang Barekatain Kaamran Raahemifar Alfonso Ariza Quintana Alicia Triviño Cabrera Promoting wired links in wireless mesh networks: an efficient engineering solution. PLoS ONE |
| title | Promoting wired links in wireless mesh networks: an efficient engineering solution. |
| title_full | Promoting wired links in wireless mesh networks: an efficient engineering solution. |
| title_fullStr | Promoting wired links in wireless mesh networks: an efficient engineering solution. |
| title_full_unstemmed | Promoting wired links in wireless mesh networks: an efficient engineering solution. |
| title_short | Promoting wired links in wireless mesh networks: an efficient engineering solution. |
| title_sort | promoting wired links in wireless mesh networks an efficient engineering solution |
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