Load aware adaptive backbone synthesis in Wireless Mesh Networks

Abstract

Wireless Mesh Networks (WMNs) are envisioned to support the wired backbone with a wireless Backbone Networks (BNet) for providing internet connectivity to large-scale areas. With a wide range of internet-oriented applications with different Quality of Service (QoS) requirement, the large-scale WMNs should have good scalability and large bandwidth. In this paper, a Load Aware Adaptive Backbone Synthesis (LAABS) algorithm is proposed to automatically balance the traffic flow in the WMNs. The BNet will dynamically split into smaller size or merge into bigger one according to statistic load information of Backbone Nodes (BNs). Simulation results show LAABS generates moderate BNet size and converges quickly, thus providing scalable and stable BNet to facilitate traffic flow.