Research Article

Design and Analysis of a Dynamic Mobility Management Scheme for Wireless Mesh Network

Table 1

Parameters and their interpretations for mathematical modeling and analysis.

ParameterInterpretation

Total number of MRs in the network
Average distance (hop count) from an arbitrary MR to the gateway
The average distance between two arbitrary MRs
Per hop communication latency
Threshold value for SMR
Average number of packets in a session per time unit
Time interval between two consecutive location updates in scheme
Average number of corresponding MCs in the WMN per MC
Rate of reconnection when an MC switches from sleep mode back to active mode
Average mobility rate of corresponding MC
Average session arrival rate of corresponding MC
Average session departure rate of corresponding MC
Average threshold value for SMR of corresponding MC
Percentage of downlink packets per Internet session
Percentage of downlink packets per Intranet session
Probability that an arriving session to an MC be an Internet session
Probability that a departing session from an MC be an Internet session
Average probability that current MR of MC does not know the location information of destination MC
Average probability that an MR broadcasts a network control message in its neighborhood
Average probability that the location query procedure is executed in WMM scheme