Optimized Energy-efficient Load Balance Routing Protocol for Wireless Mesh Networks

Abstract

Wireless mesh network (WMN) technology gains the user attractions due to its deployment flexibility. The main challenging task in the WMN is the provision of Quality of Service due to its unbalanced traffic in communication. Moreover, the recent advancement in wireless technology has fueled the user’s attraction towards the delay-sensitive services, which in turn additional impact on WMN to provide QoS. The paper aims to provide the QoS in the WMN by load balancing, and energy efficiency. In literature, various mechanisms have been designed to address the issue, but they fail to achieve the optimal solution in terms of throughput and energy efficiency. Thus, the work aims to design the energy-efficient load balancing routing metric to address the limitations of existing conventional methods. Load balancing is accomplished by the selection of non-congested nodes, and energy efficiency is attained by the selection of the greatest packet processing capable nodes for communication. Both non-congested and greatest packet processing capable nodes are used to compute the route between source and destination. The performance of the proposed routing protocol is analyzed by network simulator and the results outperformed in comparison with recent existing methods.