A Reliable and Trusted Routing Scheme in Wireless Mesh Network

Wireless mesh networks (WMN) are multi-radio, multi-hop networks with the ability of dynamically self configuring, self tuning, self-healing and self organizing. They can automatically establish ad hoc networks and maintain mesh connectivity between them. In WMN, transfer of data takes place to and from the Access point(AP). Since wireless mesh networks are ad-hoc in nature, many routing protocols used for ad-hoc networks like AODV are also used for wireless mesh networks by considering only the shortest route to destination. Data transfer through these protocols lead to congested routes and overloaded APs. To reduce congestion, the routing protocols such as traffic balancing which choose routes based on medium usage. Since, routing is a multi constraint problem. In order to reduce congestion and make routing decisions more reliable, routing decisions should be based on more than one constraint. For ensuring the route reliability, it is necessary to find out the route that lasts for longer time. This report is based on fuzzy logic, we have proposed a reliable routing scheme in order to obtain reliable route in wireless mesh networks.