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A Design and Implementation of MPLS Based Wireless Mesh Network

MPLS기반 메쉬 네트워크 설계 및 구현

  • 김영한 (숭실대학교 정보통신전자공학부) ;
  • 김정면 (숭실대학교 정보통신전자학과)
  • Received : 2010.12.08
  • Accepted : 2011.02.15
  • Published : 2011.04.30
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Abstract

Recently, wireless mesh networks are used in various application areas. However, wireless mesh networks have limited bandwidth by the wireless transmission property, and have severe throughput degradation in multi-hop transmission in single channel wireless mesh networks. To solve this problem and support QoS, a lot of routing protocols have been proposed in mesh networks. In this paper, we propose a wireless mesh networks architecture with MPLS for QoS service. The path and traffic management from the application could be independent from QoS routing protocols by using the MPLS in wirelss mesh networks. In this paper, we design a MPLS-based mesh router with IEEE 802.11e for traffic differentiation and investigate the operation by implementation and test.

최근 메쉬 네트워크는 다양한 분야에서 사용되고 있다. 그러나 메쉬 네트워크는 무선 전송의 특성으로 인한 제한적인 대역폭을 제공하며, 특히 단일 채널로 구성된 메쉬 네트워크의 경우 다중 홉 전송 시 전송률 저하 문제 등이 발생한다. 이러한 문제를 해결하고 QoS(Quality of Service)를 제공하기 위해 다양한 라우팅방식이 제안되어 왔다. 본 논문에서는 MPLS(Multi Protocol Label Switching)를 적용하여 QoS를 제공하는 MPLS 메쉬 네트워크 구조를 제안한다. MPLS를 적용한 메쉬 네트워크를 통해 하부 QoS 제공방식과 무관하게 상위 응용계층에서의 경로관리가 용이해지며 트래픽관리가 용이해진다. 본 논문에서는 IEEE 802.11e 표준을 적용하여 트래픽에 대한 차별적인 서비스를 제공하도록 MPLS 적용 메쉬 라우터를 설계하고, 구현 및 실험을 통하여 동작을 검증하였다.

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