Study of alternative strategies to selection of peer in P2P wireless mesh networks

In this paper we study the use of various strategies for selecting the server node in a P2P network, especially oriented networks with limited resources such as wireless mesh networks (WMN) based on WiFi technology. Three strategies are examined: Min-Hop, using the path with least number of hops, Min-Hop-Fuzzy, where in case of several paths with equal length an additional criterion of selection based on fuzzy logic is applied; and Purely Fuzzy, where the selection is made exclusively from a fuzzy inference process. These strategies based on resource optimization criteria are an alternative to the currently used, which are based on information sharing criteria. The study of performance was carried out using a wireless network simulation tool for discrete event simulation OMNeT + +. A comparison of the results for the different approaches is presented.