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High-Throughput Multicast Routing Metrics in Wireless Mesh Networks

Overview The stationary nature of nodes in a mesh network has shifted the main design goal of routing protocols from maintaining connectivity between source and destination nodes to finding high-throughput paths between them. Lately, numerous link-quality based routing metrics have been proposed for choosing high-throughput paths for unicast protocols. This paper studies routing metrics for high-throughput tree or mesh construction in multicast protocols. The paper shows that there is a fundamental difference between unicast and multicast routing in how data packets are transmitted at the link layer, and accordingly there is a difference in how the routing metrics for each of these primitives are designed.

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Publisher	Purdue University	File Format	PDF
Date Published	August 2007
Format	White Papers
Topics	Switching, Multicasting

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