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Evaluation of Cross-Layer Rate-Aware Routing in a Wireless Mesh Network Test Bed

EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking volume 2007, Article number: 086510 (2007) Cite this article

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Real deployments of wireless multihop networks, by Internet service providers (ISPs), have been slowed down by their poor performance and unreliability. The research community has already proved that efficient cross-layer routing, in particular rate-aware routing, can significantly improve performances. Nevertheless, this work has been done mainly by simulations, seldom being implemented in a real environment. We present in this paper the results we obtained by comparing the performances of the traditional routing approach based on the hop-count metric and the cross-layer routing approach based on the transmission rate metric. These measurements have been done on the MeshDVNet test bed we deployed in our laboratory. As a routing protocol, we used two versions (with and without cross-layer metric) of MeshDV, a simple routing protocol expressly designed for wireless mesh networks (WMNs). As our tests clearly show, cross-layer rate-aware metric gives important improvements, in both connectivity and throughput.

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  1. Laboratoire d'Informatique de Paris 6 (LIP6), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI), 104 Avenue du President Kennedy, Paris, 75016, France

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Iannone, L., Kabassanov, K. & Fdida, S. Evaluation of Cross-Layer Rate-Aware Routing in a Wireless Mesh Network Test Bed. J Wireless Com Network 2007, 086510 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1155/2007/86510

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