A framework for connectivity in inter-working multi-hop wireless networks
Author(s)
Author(s)
Salami, O.
Bagula, A.
Date Issued
2010
Publisher
Springer
Related Publication(s)
Smart Spaces and Next Generation Wired/Wireless Networking (Third Conference on Smart Spaces, ruSMART 2010 and 10th International Conference, NEW2AN 2010) Proceedings
Start page
335
End page
352
Abstract
Establishing connectivity between node pairs in inter-working multi-hop wireless networks is a challenge. Although connectivity in multi-hop wireless networks has been studied yet these analyses focused mainly on ad-hoc networks. Since the next generation of wireless networks will be inter-working, an understanding of connectivity as it applies to such networks is needed. Specifically, this research emphasizes that the connectivity between any node pair in an inter-working multi-hop wireless network should be estimated with the availability of links and the level of interference on the available links that form the communication route between the nodes. Interference is a major factor that inhibits connectivity as it can cause wasteful transmissions over low quality links. Therefore this paper presents a framework for connectivity in inter-working multi-hop wireless networks. In addition a connectivity aware routing technique is proposed. Simulation results of the performance of the proposed routing technique in comparison with other routing scheme are presented.
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