Integrating Power line and Wireless for Intelligent and Opportunistic Networking

Abstract

In this paper we try to present a network architecture which leverages the power line for Opportunistic networking. We try to provide the autonomous working by use of 802.11 wireless mesh networks. This architecture is aimed at providing better Quality of Service without any additional infrastructure. This integration gives the high bandwidth of wired network to WiFi. The architecture focuses on providing wired backhaul of power line to 802.11s WiFi network. Then the combined network is systematically simplified by graph theory simplification techniques to reduce the network size considerably thereby shortening the route path. It also achieves Quality of Service as each wired backhaul subsequently leads to Internet Gateway. Increasing the backhauls means increase in number of gateways. We devise an intelligent algorithm which can switch between gateways with change in traffic and other overloading conditions thereby bringing the bandwidth within the wireless network at par with its wired counterparts.