Delay-Based Priority Control over Multi-Hop Wireless Mesh Networks

Bing ZHANG
Oyunchimeg SHAGDAR
Suhua TANG
Youiti KADO
Masanori NOZAKI
Mehdad N. SHIRAZI

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications   Vol.E90-B    No.11    pp.3124-3132
Publication Date: 2007/11/01
Online ISSN: 1745-1345
DOI: 10.1093/ietcom/e90-b.11.3124
Print ISSN: 0916-8516
Type of Manuscript: PAPER
Category: Network
Keyword: 
quality of service (QoS),  end-to-end delay,  multimedia application,  multi-hop wireless mesh network,  

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Summary: 
Wireless mesh networks are attracting more and more attention as a promising technology for the next generation access infrastructure. QoS support is a unavoidable task given the rising popularity of multimedia applications, and also a challenging task for multi-hop wireless mesh networks. Among the numerous QoS factors, end-to-end delay is one of the most critical and important issues, especially for the real time applications. Over multi-hop wireless mesh networks, end-to-end delay of a flow is highly dependant on the number of hops as well as congestion condition of the hop nodes that the flow traverses through. In this paper, we propose QoS priority control schemes based on the end-to-end QoS delay metrics in order to increase traffic accommodation, i.e., the numbers of real-time flows which satisfy the requirements of end-to-end delay and packet delivery ratio over multi-hop wireless mesh networks. The first scheme enables source and forwarding nodes to perform priority control based on the number of hops of routes. The second scheme enables nodes to perform priority control based on the congestion condition of the hop nodes, where the flow traverses through. The effectiveness of the proposed schemes is investigated with NS-2 network simulator for voice and video traffics over multi-hop wireless mesh networks. Simulation results show that the scheme greatly improves the traffic accommodation for voice and video applications in multi-hop wireless mesh networks.