Title :
Distributed Web-Topology Formation with Directional Antenna in Mesh Environment
Author :
Ranjitkar, Arun ; Lee, Sung-Won ; Ko, Young-Bae
Author_Institution :
Grad. Sch. of Inf. & Commun., Ajou Univ., Suwon
Abstract :
Recent developments on the directional antennas have given a new dimension to revisit the problem of how to design more efficient topology formation and control protocols for a wireless mesh network (WMN). The WMN can be thought as the commercial extension of mobile ad hoc networks, forming a wireless multi-hop backbone network with static nodes such as mesh routers. Topology control is required by all the networks to increase the network performance. In order to improve the overall network performance and robustness, these static nodes in WMNs can be assumed to be equipped with multiple radios using directional antennas. The neighbor discovery part of the topology formation is done by the directional links to increase the network range. Our web-topology scheme forms the topology based on maximum 2+1 degree bounded nodes. The formation of this topology is robust and efficient, and yields better performances than the network without the topology control.
Keywords :
ad hoc networks; directive antennas; mobile radio; telecommunication congestion control; telecommunication network routing; telecommunication network topology; control protocols; directional antenna; distributed web-topology formation; mesh routers; mobile ad hoc networks; multiple radios; topology control; wireless mesh network; wireless multi-hop backbone network; Communication system control; Directional antennas; Interference; Mobile ad hoc networks; Network topology; Power control; Robustness; Spine; Wireless application protocol; Wireless mesh networks; Distributed topology formation; Mesh Networks;
Conference_Titel :
Networked Computing and Advanced Information Management, 2008. NCM '08. Fourth International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Gyeongju
Print_ISBN :
978-0-7695-3322-3
DOI :
10.1109/NCM.2008.216