ENHANCING MULTI-HOP LOCATION AWARE HARMONY BASED COVER FOR WIRELESS MESH NETWORKS WITH A RING OVERLAY

Our analysis shows that WRing improves the performance of a WMN significantly by reducing the interference and contention. In recent years, wireless mesh networks have become a popular solution for a wide range of scenarios because of their flexibility, reliability and fast deployment. In particular, in the context of providing network connectivity to mass transit vehicles, wireless mesh networks are often preferred to cellular networks because they allow custom network deployments. However, when high mobility is involved, an efficient handoff procedure is of paramount importance to ensure seamless connectivity. Propose a wireless location-aware Chord-based overlay mechanism for WMNs (WILCO) based on a novel geographical multilevel identification (ID) mapping and an improved finger table. The proposed scheme exploits the location information of mesh routers (MRs) to decrease the number of hops that the overlay messages traverse in the physical topology.