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Load Balancing in Wireless Mesh Networks Based on OpenFlow

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The wireless mesh network (WMN) is a state-of-the-art networking standard for the next generation of wireless networks. The construction of these networks is based on a network of wireless routers forwarding each other’s packets in a multi-hop manner. The advantages of WMNs are that they can be constructed over a wide area at low cost and have excellent expandability and flexibility. In order to communicate with high throughput in a WMN, routing with load balancing is needed. For this issue, distributed routing algorithms or the centralized architecture of the OpenFlow protocol have been proposed. However, in the distributed routing protocol, once a route is created, it continues to be used, even if the load increases, until one of its routers drops out. However, there are no load-balancing algorithms for large-scale WMNs with a centralized architecture. In this study, we propose a new routing architecture that centrally manages the results of distributed routing protocols by OpenFlow and dynamically balances the load. We also performed simulations to confirm the effectiveness of the proposed scheme using OpenFlow.

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Acknowledgments

Part of this work was supported by JSPS KAKENHI Grant Number 16H02813 and was carried out under the Cooperative Research Project Program of the Research Institute of Electrical Communication, Tohoku University.

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  1. Graduate School of Science, Toho University, Funabashi, Chiba, 274-8510, Japan

    Shota Kubota

  2. Faculty of Science, Toho University, Funabashi, Chiba, 274-8510, Japan

    Fumiaki Sato

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  1. Department of Information and Communication Engineering, Faculty of Information Engineering, Fukuoka Institute of Technology, Fukuoka, Japan

    Leonard Barolli

  2. Rissho University, Tokyo, Japan

    Tomoya Enokido

  3. Hosei University, Tokyo, Japan

    Makoto Takizawa

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Kubota, S., Sato, F. (2018). Load Balancing in Wireless Mesh Networks Based on OpenFlow. In: Barolli, L., Enokido, T., Takizawa, M. (eds) Advances in Network-Based Information Systems. NBiS 2017. Lecture Notes on Data Engineering and Communications Technologies, vol 7. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65521-5_28

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