SURVEY ON VARIOUS LOAD BALANCING TECHNIQUES IN WIRELESS MESH NETWORKS

Wireless Mesh Network (WMN) is a narrative networking standard for next generation wireless network. The center technology involves a network of wireless routers forwarding each other's packets in a multihop fashion. Wireless Internet Service Providers are now opting WMN to provide internet connectivity, as it allows a fast, easy and economical network operation. A result of gateway node will become congested due to the high traffic load towards it. Load Balancing (LB) can be used to expand the lifetime of a Mesh Network. In a WMN, where multiple paths to the destination node are very common, LB is the best approach to increase network throughput and to reduce congestion. A LB scheme is important to balance the traffic in the network across the various gateway nodes and avoids the overloading of any gateway node. In this paper we survey various load balancing techniques to avoid congestion in the network.