Autonomous Traffic Balancing Routing in Wireless Mesh Networks

Wireless mesh networks (WMNs) are attractively deployed as a backhaul for public Internet access with the advantages of network performance and cost efficiency. With the cooperation of multiple mesh nodes, a packet is transmitted through multi-hops to reach a destination. Wireless medium experiences relatively an unstable environment due to interferences of wireless signals. As traffic increases, a communication environment becomesworse. Similarly, as more mesh nodes join a WMN, a network performance is also degraded due to increasing interferences. Therefore, challenges of a WMN are how to accommodate a dynamic nature of wireless medium and achieve the scalability.