Research on ring-based routing for wireless mesh network

Abstract

The author puts forward a ring-based routing approach, which reduces the load of the mechanism of the central node in a wireless mesh network. This routing mechanism can evenly allocate the load from the area close to the center of the network to the network perimeter area. This paper analyzes the ring-based routing method from the outlined principles, method descriptions and emulation of the method. Adopting of this time scheduling approach is mainly to save energy, so the network can significantly decrease average power consumption, but the average power consumption reduction is based on the cost of network latency, because the dormant node cannot forward the packet. It cannot continue working until the corresponding super-frame period arrives.