Hybrid Maintenance Routing for Client Network of Wireless Mesh Network

A new routing algorithm applicable for client network of Wireless Mesh Network (WMN), called hybrid maintenance routing (HMR), is presented. WMN share common features with ad hoc networks, the routing protocols developed for ad hoc networks can be applied to WMN. Based on DSR (dynamic source routing), HMR applies multi-path routing to improve the routing fault tolerance of client networks of WMN. Route maintenance has been the main area of protocol in ad hoc network. There are two kinds of approach for route maintenance, the proactive routing maintenance and the on-demand reactive routing maintenance. A hybrid maintenance approach which combines the proactive routing maintenance and the reactive routing maintenance will improve the validity of multi-path without increasing too much overhead.