Multipath Routing for Admission Control and Load Balancing in Wireless Mesh Networks

Abstract

In wireless mesh networks, admission control and congestion mitigation are the essential techniques along with routing issues. Multi path routing can be used for efficiently allocating the resources and balancing the load. In this paper we propose algorithms to perform load balancing and admission control using multipath routing in Wireless Mesh Networks (WMNs). Admission control process is triggered during the arrival of new traffic request which is accepted or rejected based on the value of requested bandwidth in comparison with the available bandwidth. When we observe congestion in any of the links along the primary path, load balancing is performed in which the traffic is distributed along the least loaded alternate paths.