An efficient Neighbourhood Load Routing metric for Wireless Mesh Networks

Simulation Modelling Practice and Theory

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1415-1426

  Zhao, Liang ^a   Al Dubai, Ahmed Y ^a   Min, Geyong ^b  

^a EDINBURGH NAPIER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRADFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Load balancing; Neighbourhood; Routing metric; Wireless Mesh Network

Indexed keywords

BROADBAND NETWORKING; COMMUNICATION QUALITY; COMMUNITY NETWORKS; EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES; ERROR RATE; EXTENSIVE SIMULATIONS; FIXED NETWORKS; GRID TOPOLOGY; LOAD-BALANCING; METROPOLITAN NETWORKS; NEIGHBOURHOOD; NETWORK CONNECTIVITY; ROUTING METRICS;

JITTER; MESH NETWORKING; MOBILE AD HOC NETWORKS; PARALLEL ARCHITECTURES; ROUTING PROTOCOLS; TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; WIRELESS MESH NETWORKS (WMN);

AD HOC NETWORKS;

EID: 79955660269     PISSN: 1569190X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.simpat.2010.10.009     Document Type: Conference Paper

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