Multicast Multi-hop Routing for Wireless Mesh Networks

Abstract

Wireless technologies have been facilitating potential digital inclusion opportunities and a wide range of community partnership platforms. Wireless Mesh Networking (WMN) plays a key role in the next generation wireless and mobile networks. Supporting QoS-aware communications to enable a rich portfolio of real-time and QoS sensitive applications is foreseen to be vital for the success of the next generation WMNs. Unfortunately, existing standards supporting instant group communications in WMNs are not perfectly equipped to cater to this task as these standards come with an inherent complexity and suffer from innate problems with respect to QoS provisioning. Thus, in this study, we propose a new multicast algorithm, namely, Multicast Gateway Centralized Multi-hop Routing algorithm (MGCMR) to facilitate the instant/real time communication applications. The MGCMR is the first that considers both the requirements of instant applications and the capability of gateway based management in WMNs. Our experiments confirm the superiority of our proposed MGCMR against its counterparts.