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MLSD: A Network Topology Discovery Protocol for Infrastructure Wireless Mesh Networks

Authors:
Daniel Porto
Gledson Elias

Keywords: wireless mesh networks; routing protocols; link-state protocols

Abstract:
In Infrastructure Wireless Mesh Networks (IWMN), the network topology discovery protocol has an essential role for responding proactively and promptly to topology modifications. It is responsible for disseminating link state updates, managing the tension between update frequency and number of messages, which has strong impact in protocol performance, network resource consumption and scalability. In such a context, this paper proposes the Mesh Network Link State Discovery (MLSD) protocol, which has been specifically designed considering IWMNs features. MLSD adopts a proactive, reliable, incremental, controlled and event-based delivery strategy, which avoids periodic messages and coordinates how information is propagated for enhancing efficiency. Besides, it joins several updates for reducing network resource consumption.

Pages: 43 to 48

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2014

Publication date: February 23, 2014

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4413

ISBN: 978-1-61208-318-6

Location: Nice, France

Dates: from February 23, 2014 to February 27, 2014