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Impact of Gateways Placement on Clustering Algorithms in Wireless Mesh Networks

Sonia Waharte
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Raouf Boutaba

Abstract

In wireless mesh networks, designing algorithms that efficiently balance the traffic loads among a given set of network gateways is a challenging problem. Links interfere, transfer capacity is limited, and traffic demands vary overtime. The position of the gateways also affects the overall network performance as a result of its direct impact on the way routers are associated to gateways. In this paper, we investigate the performance of several routers-to-gateways association heuristics in relation with different gateway placement algorithms. We show that if bounds on the number of hops between routers and gateways exist, load-based heuristics perform the best. In general cases however, interference-based approaches provide better load balancing.
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hal-01188705 , version 1 (31-08-2015)

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Sonia Waharte, Raouf Boutaba, Pascal Anelli. Impact of Gateways Placement on Clustering Algorithms in Wireless Mesh Networks. IEEE International Conference on Communications 2009 (ICC), Jun 2009, Dresden, Germany. pp.1--5, ⟨10.1109/ICC.2009.5305932⟩. ⟨hal-01188705⟩
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