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Studying Route Optimality in Multi-Hop Wireless Mesh Networks

다중 홉 무선 메쉬 네트워크에서 최적 경로에 관한 연구

  • 김성관 (서울대학교 전기공학부 멀티미디어 무선통신망 연구실) ;
  • 이옥환 (서울대학교 전기공학부 멀티미디어 무선통신망 연구실) ;
  • 이성주 ;
  • 최성현 (서울대학교 전기공학부 멀티미디어 무선통신망 연구실)
  • Published : 2009.01.31
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Abstract

This paper investigates how many optimal routes can be established in terms of a given wireless mesh routing metric. Although many of routing metrics have been devised to precisely derive the wireless link quality in mesh, most (if not all) metrics have not been evaluated their optimality along with routing protocols. We consider stateof-the-art routing metrics and a widely accepted routing protocol in order to observe the optimality of established routes varying the number of source nodes. Also, we propose a unidirectional routing to deal with possible link asymmetry feature in wireless links. Through comparative simulation evaluations, we show that the portion of optimally established routes becomes less as the network traffic load increases, regardless of employed metrics, network topologies, and routing protocols.

이 논문은 멀티 홉 무선 메쉬 네트워크에서 제공하는 라우팅 프로토콜이 적용된 라우팅 metric에 따라 최적의 경로를 얼마나 잘 찾는가에 관한 논문이다. 최근에 제시된 라우팅 metric은 Link Quality (LQ)를 정확히 나타내도록 설계되어있지만, 많은 metric들은 그것을 기반으로 찾은 경로들이 얼마나 많은 비율로 최적의 경로를 찾을 수 있는지에 대해서 검증하지 않았다. 우리는 최근에 잘 디자인된 라우팅 metric들과 가장 많이 사용되는 라우팅 프로토콜의 다양한 조합을 고려하였다. 그리고 각각의 라우팅에서 찾은 경로의 최적 정도를 살펴보았습니다. 또한 무선 링크의 비대칭성을 반영한 metric을 위해서 단 방향성을 가지는 라우팅 프로토콜을 제안한다. 시뮬레이션을 통해서 만들어진 최적 경로의 비율이 살펴본 모든 라우팅 metric 및 프로토콜 그리고 네트워크 구조에 대해서 네트웍 트래픽 양에 따라 감소하는 현상을 알 수 있다.

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