A ROUTING ALGORITHM USING THE GATEWAY LOCATION VIA BROADCASTING THE HELLO PACKET IN A HYBRID WIRELESS MESH NETWORK

Abstract

In a hybrid wireless mesh network (HWMN), traffic is mainly concentrated to and from the gateways due to the need for mobile devices to exploit services on the Internet. Therefore, routing algorithms in the HWMN network requires consideration of this traffic characteristic. In this paper, we have proposed a routing protocol based on the gateway location via hello messages to limit the broadcast area of the routing request in the HWMN network. The simulation results show the efficiency of the proposed protocol through the analysis of routing overhead and network throughput.