Implementation On Routing Protocol Of Wireless Mesh Network

A wireless mesh network (WMN) is a multi-hop wireless network. It has a mesh topology, and the terminals can transmit data by a wireless multi-hop relay. A WMN is also a hierarchical network consisting of mesh clients, mesh routers, and gateways. With a fixed location and a stable power supply, Mesh routers constitute a wireless mesh backbone, to which mesh clients are connected as a star topology, and gateways are chosen among mesh clients providing other networks access. Mesh clients can access other networks through mesh routers, and they can also communicate with each other in the same local area network without a mesh router. A WMN has a feature of self-organizing and self-healing, and can provide greater network capacity and higher transfer rate. So the WMN is becoming an important part in the next generation of Internet technology.Mesh routing protocol is one of the key technologies to build networks and this paper focuses on its design. First, the structure, characteristics and applications of WMN are introduced briefly; Second, the principles and ideas of designing mesh routing protocols are discussed; then, a WMN routing is proposed by improving and optimizing a mobile Ad Hoc routing with the concrete realization of other parts. At last, tests are run on the mesh system, followed by results and analysis.