METHOD FOR IMPROVING CAPACITY IN MULTI-HOP WIRELESS MESH NETWORKS

摘要

Wireless access efficiency is improved in a multi-hop, multiple-flow network by optimizing multi-flows over the entire network. This approach also benefits individual flows. These mechanisms apply joint routing and traffic-shaping techniques to multiple-flows at intermediate hops. Even though the routing and traffic-shaping techniques may adversely affect flows at some hops, when considered over multiple hops (for a given flow) and over multiple flows (for a given hop or number of hops), significant performance may be achieved for all flows. System performance is achieved by controlling the routing paths of multiple flows in a multi-hop, multi-flow wireless network, and applying traffic shaping in a systematic way, rather than relying on an opportunistic (i.e., randomly or independently optimized) approach. In a multi-hop environment, additional advantages of transparency to both the originating application (at the application layer) and terminating application (at the application layer) are achieved.