Performance Comparison of FC-RDVM and RDVM Router Replacement Methods by WMN-PSOHC Simulation System Considering Exponential Distribution of Mesh Clients

Wireless Mesh Networks (WMNs) are low-cost and have easy maintenance. However, WMNs have some problems such as node placement problem, security, transmission power and so on. In this work, we deal with node placement problem. In our previous work, we implemented a hybrid simulation system based on Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) and Hill Climbing (HC) called WMN-PSOHC for solving the node placement problem in WMNs. In this paper, we compare the performance of FC-RDVM with RDVM considering Exponential distribution of mesh clients. Simulation results show that FC-RDVM has better performance than RDVM.