Wireless Mesh Network(WMN) is a new distributed broadband access network.Compared with the typical mobile Ad hoc network
it is with less mobility and usually not powered by the battery.Therefore
the traditional mobile Ad hoc routing protocols are no longer suitable for WMN.In order to meet the performance requirements of multimedia traffic transmission
the routing protocol designed for WMN must be taken into account the combination of load balance
fault tolerant and throughput
etc.This paper firstly introduces typical structures and characteristics of WMN
and several relevant WMN routing protocols.Then a method of integrated metrics based Extended Dynamic Source Routing (EDSR) protocol is proposed.The analysis and simulation results show that the proposed EDSR protocol improves the throughput of WMN significantly
which reaches the target of load balance simultaneously.