AntMesh: An efficient data forwarding scheme for load balancing in multi-radio infrastructure mesh networks

2010 IEEE 7th International Conference on Mobile Adhoc and Sensor Systems, MASS 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 558-563

  Bokhari, Fawaz ^a   Zaruba, Gergely ^a  

^a University of Texas at Arlington   (United States)

Author keywords

Ant colony optimization; Interference; Multiradio mesh networks; Routing

Indexed keywords

ANT-COLONY OPTIMIZATION; ARTIFICIAL ANT; CHANNEL DIVERSITY; DATA-FORWARDING; DESIGN GOAL; DYNAMIC NETWORK; END TO END DELAY; ESTIMATION MODULE; FLOW INTERFERENCE; HIGH LOAD; INTERFERENCE; LINK ESTIMATION; LOAD-BALANCING; MULTI-RADIO; PACKET DELAY; PATH ESTIMATION; QUEUING DELAY; ROUTING; SIMULATION STUDIES;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; ESTIMATION; INTERFERENCE SUPPRESSION; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; OPTIMIZATION; PARALLEL ARCHITECTURES; SENSORS; WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN);

MESH NETWORKING;

EID: 78650970882     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/MASS.2010.5663891     Document Type: Conference Paper

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