PERFORMANCE OPTIMIZATION OF MESH NETWORKS USING MUTICAST FORWARDING APPROACH

Wireless mesh networks (WMNs) will give affordable solutions for extending the reach of wireless access points by victimization multi-hop routing over a group of stationary wireless routers. The routing protocol for these networks might have to handle quality concerns to satisfy the requirements of the user. during this paper, we tend to gift a top quality primarily based routing protocol for wireless mesh networks that tries to maximize the chance of prosperous transmissions while minimizing the end-to-end delay. The planned routing protocol uses reactive route discoveries to gather key parameters from candidate routes to estimate the chance of success and delay of knowledge packets transmitted over them. Many proprietary mesh solutions were developed by individual nodes but so as to interoperability; IEEE forms a task cluster known as IEEE 802.11s to develop associate degree integrated mesh networking answer. There's few work and lots of simulation studies have been done to guage the performance of the Handoff Techniques with the belief of distinctive variety of flow with fastened packet size and packet rate to different mobile nodes. However, real networks carry a various application (video, voice, FTP, Email etc) with completely different characteristics (packet size, data rate). During this paper, we are investigated and analyzed the performance of wireless Mesh Networks (WMNs) under such heterogeneous application characteristics.