International Journal of Engineering Research

P. L. Shreenidhi ¹, H. R. Ranganath ², C. Puttamadappa ³, T. G. Basavaraju ⁴

Affiliations
1 BGS Research Foundation, SJB Institute of Technology, Bangalore, IN
2 Department of Information Science and Engineering, Sridevi College of Engineering and Technology, Tumkur, IN
3 Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Sapthagiri College of Engineering, Bangalore, IN
4 Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Government SKSJ Technological Institute, Bangalore, IN

Abstract

Wireless Mesh Networks (WMNs) have gained main attraction in providing flexible network services and support to the end users. There are many efforts seen to design robust routing protocol for WMNs and solutions are proposed to standardized channel allocation techniques. There are various approaches dedicated to maximize the network though put and minimize network interface. Existing multi radio multi channel routing protocols utilize only single channel situation and static channel allocation degrades the performance of the WMNs. The challenge is to allocate channel without link interference and to improve end-to-end throughput efficiency in multipath routing for WMNs. In this paper, we propose a dynamic channel allocation technique is proposed for multi path routing protocol for WMNs. Dynamic channel allocation is used to avoid the inter-flow and intra-flow channel competition and interference. The protocol establishes and maintains multiple channel dimensional disjoint points changing frequently and each data flow is separated into multiple paths. NS2 simulations are carried out for the evaluation of the performance of the proposed channel allocation technique and compared with popular routing protocols of Mesh Networks Ad hoc On Demand Distance Vector Routing Protocol (AODV) and Hybrid Wireless Mesh Protocol (HWMP). The simulation results show that proposed dynamic channel allocation technique achieve better adaptability with less overhead and interference. The multipath routing show increase end-to-end throughput significantly.

Keywords

Wireless Mesh Networks, Dynamic Channel Allocation, Multipath Routing, AODV and HWMP.

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