Authors:
Mathias Kretschmer
1
;
Ilka Miloucheva
1
and
Dirk Hetzer
2
Affiliations:
1
Fraunhofer Institute, Schloss Birlinghoven, Germany
;
2
T-Systems, Germany
Keyword(s):
Multi-path routing, QoS, policy, resource planning, wireless mesh network, broadcast media, mesh gateway.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Adaptive Wireless Network Protocols
;
Data Communication Networking
;
Information and Systems Security
;
Mobile Ad-Hoc and Sensor Networks
;
Mobile Multimedia Applications
;
Mobile Software and Services
;
Multimedia and QoS over Wireless Networks
;
Network Management
;
Sensor, Mesh and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks
;
Telecommunications
;
Ubiquitous Wireless Services and Protocols
;
Wireless and Mobile Technologies
;
Wireless Information Networks and Systems
Abstract:
The design of a policy oriented configurable multi-path routing architecture for enhanced mesh network infrastructures is discussed. The goal is optimal routing path selection between mesh clients and mesh router gateways dependent on application classes. Policies are used to dynamically configure the route path selection for QoS-aware applications taking into account resource reservation requests for application traffic (in advance reservation, on-demand resource allocation, etc) and business goals of the policy actors, i.e. end-users, service providers and network operators. Interactions of the mesh routing protocol facilities with the policy management and resource planning components for advance and on-demand resource allocation are considered. Scenarios are aimed at supporting QoS-aware applications (such as IPTV, VoD, GRID, VoIP, real-time, mission critical, content delivery on-demand, software and large file downloads) using a wireless mesh network backbone infrastructure (bas
ed on IEEE 802.11, IEEE 802.16) enhanced with broadcast technologies (DVB-T, DVB-H).
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