Traffic Balancing in Wireless MESH

Thomas Kunz

Systems and Computer Engineering

Conclusions and Future Work

nMesh networks: Gateways/APs are performance bottlenecks

nMANET routing protocols, routing to closest AP, tend to (temporarily) overload some APs

nTB can improve network performance by distributing traffic more equally to all APs

nFuture Work:

ØLocation of APs has major impact on performance

ØIEEE 802.11 is poor protocol for APs, as they need to access media more frequently than nodes

ØMESH are more static, should we re-issue route discovery periodically?

ØExplore TB in our wireless mesh testbed, based on IEEE 802.11 a/g radios and Intel IXP 425-based wireless routers