AUTONOMOUS NETWORK RECONFIGURATION SYSTEM

Guided By:
Mrs. M. Thiruchelvi B.E., M.E

Batch No: 14 Group Members

1. Shameem A S - 96108104089 2. Sagar A 3. Ramesh V G -96108104080 -96108104316 08CS93 08CS83 08CSLE120

Abstract
Nowadays wireless mesh networks (WMNs) are used widely for a variety of applications. These WMNs continuously experience frequent link failures caused by channel interference, dynamic obstacles, and applications bandwidth demands. Any problem in WMNs requires manual network management for their realtime recovery which is much expensive. This paper presents an autonomous network reconfiguration system (ARS) that enables a multiradio WMN to autonomously recover from local link failures to preserve network performance. By using channel and radio diversities in WMNs, ARS generates necessary changes in local radio and channel assignments in order to recover from failures. Based on the generated configuration changes, the system cooperatively reconfigures network settings among local mesh routers. ARS can be simulated through ns2, a network simulator. By using ARS we can overcome about 90% failure-recovery rather than any hardware problems and gives the ability of meeting the applications bandwidth demands by an average of 200%.

Reference:
Self-Reconfigurable Wireless Mesh Networks

Kyu-Han Kim, Member, IEEE, and Kang G. Shin, Fellow, IEEE, ACM IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Vol. 19, No. 2, April 2011.

LITERATURE SURVEY

Wireless mesh networks: A survey

Ian F. Akyildiz, Xudong Wang, Weilin Wang. The capability of self-organization in WMNs reduces the complexity of network deployment and maintenance, and thus, requires minimal upfront investment. The backbone of WMNs provides a viable solution for users to access the Internet anywhere anytime. It can also enhance the reliability of the mobile ad hoc network of mesh clients. WMNs enable the integration of multiple wireless networks. This paper resolves the issues related to Scalability, Self-organization and selfconfiguration, Security & Network integration.

Advantages:

Its more scalable.

Self-organization and self-configuration Its very secure

Disadvantages:

An ultimate solution is not given for each problems.

Interference-Aware Channel Assignment in Multi-Radio Wireless Mesh Networks

Krishna N. Ramachandran, Elizabeth M. Belding, Kevin C. Almeroth, Milind M. Buddhikot. This paper addresses BFS-CA, a dynamic, interference aware channel assignment algorithm and corresponding protocol for multi-radio wireless mesh networks. BFS-CA improves the performance of wireless mesh networks by minimizing interference between routers in the mesh network and between the mesh network and co-located wireless networks.

Advantages:
Network topologies are used.

Link delay estimation.

Channel re-assignment.

Disadvantages
Only static channel assignment is used.

Routing in Multi-Radio, Multi-Hop Wireless Mesh Networks

Richard Draves Jitendra Padhye Brian Zill A new metric for routing in multi-radio, multihop wireless networks is explained. This paper focus on wireless networks with stationary nodes, such as community wireless networks. The primary objective of the metric is to choose a highthroughput path between a source and a destination. Metric assigns weights to individual links based on the Expected Transmission Time (ETT) of a packet over the link.

Advantages:

Accurate in band width estimation.

It achieves TCP transfer at maximum throughput speed. It focus on (ETT)expected transmission time.

Disadvantages
Cost of implementation is high.

The Case for a Multi-hop Wireless Local Area Network

Seungjoon Lee Suman Banerjee Bobby Bhattacharjee This paper we have defined a multi-hop WLAN architecture and quantified its benefits. While multi-hop LANs have significant benefits, enabling multi-hop paths from clients to APs involving untrusted proxies can lead to potential security threats, e.g. a malicious proxy can (1) mount a denial of service attack by dropping all frames forwarded to it by the clients, or (2) tamper sensitive data sent through it.

Advantages:

Untrusted proxies can lead to potential security threats.

It invokes Measurement based evaluation.

Disadvantages
Physical constraints cannot overcome completely.

Minimum-Interference Channel Assignment in Multi-Radio Wireless Mesh Networks

Anand Prabhu Subramanian, Himanshu Gupta & Samir R. Das. The paper addresses the problem of assigning channels to communication links in the network with the objective of minimizing overall network interference. Since the number of radios on any node can be less than the number of available channels, the channel assignment must obey the constraint that the number of different channels assigned to the links incident on any node is almost the number of radio interfaces on that node. Centralized and distributed algorithms for the above channel assignment problem.

Advantages:

Static & dynamic channel assignment is used.

Measuring interface and traffic.

Disadvantages
Delay in channel assignment.

Existing System
Wireless mesh networks (WMNs) are being developed actively and deployed widely for a variety of applications, such as public safety, environment monitoring, and citywide wireless Internet services. They have also been evolving in various forms (e.g., using multiradio/channel systems) to meet the increasing capacity demands by the above-mentioned and other emerging applications. However, due to heterogeneous and fluctuating wireless link conditions, preserving the required performance of such WMNs is still a challenging problem. For example, some links of a WMN may experience significant channel interference from other coexisting wireless networks. Some parts of networks might not be able to meet increasing bandwidth demands from new mobile users and applications. Links in a certain area (e.g., a hospital or police station) might not be able to use some frequency channels because of spectrum etiquette or regulation.

Proposed System
We propose an autonomous network reconfiguration system (ARS) that allows a multiradio WMN to autonomously reconfigure its local network settingschannel, radio, and route assignment for real-time recovery from link failures. In its core, ARS is equipped with a reconfiguration planning algorithm that identifies local configuration changes for the recovery while minimizing changes of healthy network settings. Briefly, ARS first searches for feasible local configuration changes available around a faulty area, based on current channel and radio associations. Then, by imposing current network settings as constraints, ARS identifies reconfiguration plans that require the minimum number of changes for the healthy network settings. Next, ARS also includes a monitoring protocol that enables a WMN to perform real-time failure recovery in conjunction with the planning algorithm. The accurate linkquality information from the monitoring protocol is used to identify network changes that satisfy applications new QoS demands or that avoid propagation of QoS failures to neighboring links (or ripple effects). Running in every mesh node, the monitoring protocol periodically measures wireless link conditions via a hybrid link-quality measurement technique. Based on the measurement information, ARS detects link failures and/or generates QoS-aware network reconfiguration plans upon detection of a link failure.

System Requirements Software Requirements:

Front End Back End : ASP. Net : SQL Server 2005 : Windows XP.

Operating System

Hardware Requirements:
Hard disk RAM Processor : P IV : 40GB : 1GB

REFERENCE PAPERS