WAIN: Wireless Ad Hoc in Infrastructure Network

Wireless local area network (WLAN) has grown into a large and diverse field of research, which span from power control to privacy and security that can be operated in two modes: infrastructure and ad hoc mode. Coverage and capacity limitation in infrastructure network causes performance and throughput to degrade. As a step to overcome this crucial problem, ad hoc mode is integrated into infrastructure network. Such architecture, recognized as WAIN (Wireless Ad Hoc in Infrastructure Network) In this work. WAIN eliminates one hop capabilities of infrastructure network to multihop. Besides, it allows users to make use of ad hoc connections to forward data to avoid congestion at access point (AP) which in return improves overall network capacity. We propose duration based routing algorithm to route packets to the intended destination that enhances throughput and upgrades the overall network performance.