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Impact of gateways placement on clustering algorithms in wireless mesh networks

  • Sonia Waharte
    ,
  • Raouf Boutaba
    ,
  • Pascal Anelli
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Abstract

Abstract—In wireless mesh networks, designing algorithms that efficiently balance the traffic loads among a given set of network gateways is a challenging problem. Links interfere, transfer capacity is limited, and traffic demands vary overtime. The position of the gateways also affects the overall network performance as a result of its direct impact on the way routers are associated to gateways. In this paper, we investigate the performance of several routers-to-gateways association heuristics in relation with different gateway placement algorithms.We show that if bounds on the number of hops between routers and gateways exist, load-based heuristics perform the best. In general cases however, interference-based approaches provide better load balancing.

Publication Information

Output type

Research Output:
Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding
Conference contribution
 Peer-review

Original language

English

Publication milestones

  • Published - 30/10/2009

Publication status

Published - 30/10/2009

Publisher

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., United States

ISBN (Print)

9781424434350

ISBN (Electronic)

9781424434350

Publication IDs

  • handle.net: 10547/272952

Host publication title

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