Path Mechanism to reduce packet data loss in Wireless Mesh Networks

A wireless mesh network (WMN) is a communication network made up of radio nodes organized in a mesh topology. Wireless mesh network often consists of mesh clients, mesh routers and gateways. A wireless Mesh network uses multi-hop communication. Due to multi-hop architecture and wireless nature, Mesh networks are vulnerable to various types of Denial of Services attack. It suffers from Packet dropping at Routing layer. Client nodes are unable to get services from gateway nodes, hence network gets down. The Paper emphasis on the developing of a path protocol when the minimun possible packet dropp occurs in wireless mesh networks. Due to packet droping occurrences the network performance degrades. In the work, we have evaluated the Performance of WMN under packet dropping on the basis of their throughput and Data packet loss.