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Promoting Wired Links in Wireless Mesh Networks: An Efficient Engineering Solution
Wireless Mesh Networks (WMNs) cannot completely guarantee good performance of traffic sources such as video streaming. To improve the network performance, this study proposes an efficient engineering solution named Wireless-to-Ethernet-Mesh-Portal-Passageway (WEMPP) that allows effective use of wire...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4368720/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25793516 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0119679 |
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author | Barekatain, Behrang Raahemifar, Kaamran Ariza Quintana, Alfonso Triviño Cabrera, Alicia |
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description | Wireless Mesh Networks (WMNs) cannot completely guarantee good performance of traffic sources such as video streaming. To improve the network performance, this study proposes an efficient engineering solution named Wireless-to-Ethernet-Mesh-Portal-Passageway (WEMPP) that allows effective use of wired communication in WMNs. WEMPP permits transmitting data through wired and stable paths even when the destination is in the same network as the source (Intra-traffic). Tested with four popular routing protocols (Optimized Link State Routing or OLSR as a proactive protocol, Dynamic MANET On-demand or DYMO as a reactive protocol, DYMO with spanning tree ability and HWMP), WEMPP considerably decreases the end-to-end delay, jitter, contentions and interferences on nodes, even when the network size or density varies. WEMPP is also cost-effective and increases the network throughput. Moreover, in contrast to solutions proposed by previous studies, WEMPP is easily implemented by modifying the firmware of the actual Ethernet hardware without altering the routing protocols and/or the functionality of the IP/MAC/Upper layers. In fact, there is no need for modifying the functionalities of other mesh components in order to work with WEMPPs. The results of this study show that WEMPP significantly increases the performance of all routing protocols, thus leading to better video quality on nodes. |
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spelling | pubmed-43687202015-03-27 Promoting Wired Links in Wireless Mesh Networks: An Efficient Engineering Solution Barekatain, Behrang Raahemifar, Kaamran Ariza Quintana, Alfonso Triviño Cabrera, Alicia PLoS One Research Article Wireless Mesh Networks (WMNs) cannot completely guarantee good performance of traffic sources such as video streaming. To improve the network performance, this study proposes an efficient engineering solution named Wireless-to-Ethernet-Mesh-Portal-Passageway (WEMPP) that allows effective use of wired communication in WMNs. WEMPP permits transmitting data through wired and stable paths even when the destination is in the same network as the source (Intra-traffic). Tested with four popular routing protocols (Optimized Link State Routing or OLSR as a proactive protocol, Dynamic MANET On-demand or DYMO as a reactive protocol, DYMO with spanning tree ability and HWMP), WEMPP considerably decreases the end-to-end delay, jitter, contentions and interferences on nodes, even when the network size or density varies. WEMPP is also cost-effective and increases the network throughput. Moreover, in contrast to solutions proposed by previous studies, WEMPP is easily implemented by modifying the firmware of the actual Ethernet hardware without altering the routing protocols and/or the functionality of the IP/MAC/Upper layers. In fact, there is no need for modifying the functionalities of other mesh components in order to work with WEMPPs. The results of this study show that WEMPP significantly increases the performance of all routing protocols, thus leading to better video quality on nodes. Public Library of Science 2015-03-20 /pmc/articles/PMC4368720/ /pubmed/25793516 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0119679 Text en © 2015 Barekatain et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Barekatain, Behrang Raahemifar, Kaamran Ariza Quintana, Alfonso Triviño Cabrera, Alicia Promoting Wired Links in Wireless Mesh Networks: An Efficient Engineering Solution |
title | Promoting Wired Links in Wireless Mesh Networks: An Efficient Engineering Solution |
title_full | Promoting Wired Links in Wireless Mesh Networks: An Efficient Engineering Solution |
title_fullStr | Promoting Wired Links in Wireless Mesh Networks: An Efficient Engineering Solution |
title_full_unstemmed | Promoting Wired Links in Wireless Mesh Networks: An Efficient Engineering Solution |
title_short | Promoting Wired Links in Wireless Mesh Networks: An Efficient Engineering Solution |
title_sort | promoting wired links in wireless mesh networks: an efficient engineering solution |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4368720/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25793516 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0119679 |
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