Network coding,which exploits the broadcast nature of wireless medium,is an effective way to improve network performance in wireless multi-hop networks,but the first practical wireless network coding system COPE cannot actively detect a route with more coding opportunities and limit the coding structure within two-hop regions.An on-demand coding-aware routing scheme (OCAR) for wireless Mesh networks is proposed to overcome the limitations specified above by actively detecting a route with more coding opportunities along the entire route rather than within two-hop regions.Utilizing more coding opportunities tends to route multiple flows ‘close to each other’ while avoiding interference requires routing multiple flows ‘away from each other’.OCAR achieves a tradeoff by adopting RC AIA as routing metric in route discovery,which is not only coding-aware but also considers both inter and intra flow interference.Simulation results show that,compared with Ad-hoc on-demand distance vecfor routing (AODV) and AODV+COPE,OCAR can find more coding opportunities,thus effectively increase network throughput,reduce end to end delay and alleviate network congestion. Network coding, which exploits the broadcast nature of wireless medium, is an effective way to improve network performance in wireless multi-hop networks, but the first practical wireless network coding system COPE can not actively detect a route with more coding opportunities and limit the coding structure On two-hop regions. On-demand coding-aware routing scheme (OCAR) for wireless Mesh networks is proposed to overcome the limitations specified above by actively detecting a route with more coding opportunities along the entire route rather than within two-hop regions .Utilizing more coding opportuities to route multiple flows ’close to each other’ while enabling separate multiple flows ’away from each other’ .OCAR achieves a tradeoff by adopting RC AIA as routing metric in route discovery, which is not only coding -aware but also considers both inter and intra flow interference. Simulation results show that, compared with Ad-hoc on-demand distance vecf or routing (AODV) and AODV + COPE, OCAR can find more coding opportunities, thus effectively increase network throughput, reduce end to end delay and alleviate network congestion.