A random switching traffic scheduling algorithm for data collection in wireless mesh network

Because of the advantages of multi-hop communication, self-organizing, self-healing and reliability, wireless mesh network becomes an ideal choice for data collection. However, wireless mesh network for data collection faces challenge on communication performance of network caused by application layer data traffic. When a large number of data occurs in emergence, some mesh nodes (the last hop nodes) which are in pivotal location will face great communication pressure and probably lead to extremely data congestion, especially in smart grid. For the idea of load balancing, this paper proposes a new random switching traffic scheduling algorithm based on data collection tree. Simulation data show that the new algorithm can create a balanced data collection tree, significantly reduce the packet loss ratio of the burst data and release congestion of system.