%0 Journal Article 
%F IKF-ECRRWMNT-07
%A Iannone, Luigi
%A Kabassanov, K.
%A Fdida, Serge
%T {E}valuation of {C}ross-{L}ayer {R}ate-{A}ware {R}outing in a {W}ireless {M}esh {N}etwork {T}est-{B}ed
%J {EURASIP} {J}ournal on {W}ireless {C}ommunications and {N}etworking {S}pecial {I}ssue: {M}obile {M}ulti-{H}op {A}d {H}oc {N}etworks: {F}rom {T}heory to {R}eality
%V 2007
%N 0
%X <p>Real deployments of wireless multihop networks, by Internet service providers (ISPs), have been slowed down by their poor performance and unreliability. The research community has already proved that efficient cross-layer routing, in particular rateaware routing, can significantly improve performances. Nevertheless, this work has been done mainly by simulations, seldom being implemented in a real environment.We present in this paper the results we obtained by comparing the performances of the traditional routing approach based on the hop-count metric and the cross-layer routing approach based on the transmission rate metric. These measurements have been done on the MeshDVNet test bed we deployed in our laboratory. As a routing protocol, we used two versions (with and without cross-layermetric) of MeshDV, a simple routing protocol expressly designed for wireless mesh networks (WMNs). As our tests clearly show, cross-layer rate-aware metric gives important improvements, in both connectivity and throughput.</p>
%U http://www.net.t-labs.tu-berlin.de/papers/IKF-ECRRWMNT-07.pdf
%U http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2007/86510
%8 January
%D 2007