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The wireless mesh network and the associated IEEE 802.11s standard have attracted an enormous amount of research in the wireless research community in the past few years. Nevertheless, WMN architecture has not received much needed attention compared to other topics in this area of research. Based on topological differences, various network architectures are possible for WMNs, and we believe such architectures...
Ever increasing demand for more bandwidth over the Internet has lead to the development of many new technologies and architectures. Among these, Hybrid of Wireless and Optical networks have become increasingly important because of their “mobility” and “flexibility” in the wireless part and “robustness” and “high capacity”...
Multi-hop wireless networks (MWNs) are rapidly gaining attention, because they can provide a wide coverage area to Internet users. To provide stable and high-performance network environments, security issues must be addressed. This paper focuses on the security issues in terms of anomalous relay nodes inside networks because their malicious behaviors can degrade the performance of MWNs. To maintain...
Communication networks have evolved tremendously over the past several decades, offering a multitude of services while becoming an essential critical infrastructure in our daily lives. Networks in general, and the Internet in particular face a number of challenges to normal operation, including attacks and large-scale disasters, as well as due to the characteristics of the mobile wireless communication...
Clustering is an effective approach to hierarchically organizing network topology and to prolong the lifetime of a wireless sensor network. Current clustering protocols usually utilize two techniques: selecting cluster heads with more residual energy and rotating cluster heads periodically to distribute the energy consumption among nodes in each cluster. Most of the researches in this field has focused...
Because of the high cost of construction and maintenance of infrastructure-based networks, researchers have concentrated their efforts on studying wireless mesh/relay networks with lower cost and high scalability. Due to the demand for real-time multimedia communication in heterogeneous networks, IEEE 802.16 multi-hop mesh/relay networks with IEEE 802.11e WLANs for QoS support can be an effective...
When supporting both voice and TCP in a wireless multihop network, there are two conflicting goals: to protect the VoIP traffic, and to completely utilize the remaining capacity for TCP. We investigate the interaction between these two popular categories of traffic and find that conventional solution approaches, such as enhanced TCP variants, priority queues, bandwidth limitation, and traffic shaping...
In wireless mesh networks based on IEEE 802.16 WiMax, each mesh node has its own service area that provides wireless Internet access service to client terminals. The network performance degrades due to radio interference when multiple service areas overlap with each other. To avoid this problem, information of the exact location and size of the service area of neighboring mesh nodes is useful for...
Mesh router (MR) placement is one of the fundamental issues that need to be addressed carefully to achieve a desired performance of a wireless mesh network (WMN). The objective of the MR placement schemes is to systematically determine the minimal number of MRs and their positions while satisfying various constraints, such as coverage, connectivity, traffic demand, etc. This paper explores the solution...
In this paper, we study the problem of downlink bandwidth allocation in a non-cooperative IEEE 802.16 OFDM/TDMA based wireless mesh network, and propose an auction based framework in which the gateway, equipped with the precious high speed Internet connection, serves as the auctioneer while the first-level mesh routers (MRs) (i.e., those with direct wireless connections to the gateway) act as bidders...
Nowadays public Internet access in residential areas is provided via fixed legacy wired infrastructure. Alternately, this paper analyzes a low cost, easy-to-install 802.11s wireless mesh based solution to ensure the transition to a network operating in a wireless environment. The presented simulations for the considered scenario take into account the quality of service provided to the end consumer,...
Peer-to-Peer (P2P) video streaming services on the Internet have gained increasing popularity during the past few years. However, many problems still need to be addressed before it can be widely deployed in the wireless environment. The existing P2P overlay network architecture hides the underlying network topology, assuming channel quality is always in perfect condition. This works well for the Internet-based...
Recently, wireless mesh networks (WMNs) have attracted attention as a way to provide alternative Internet connectivity to rural areas or communities. In WMNs, wireless access points communicate with each other wirelessly, forming a true wireless mesh based access network of mesh relay nodes (MRNs). A major problem is, however, scalability of WMNs as well as MAC and PHY layer overhead for packet transmission...
When there is no wired connectivity, wireless mesh networks (WMNs) can provide Internet access with lower cost and greater flexibility than traditional approaches. This has motivated the design of new protocols and algorithms for WMNs, and recently the deployment of experimental prototypes. In this paper we add to these previous works with the performance evaluation of a first CARMEN deployment, with...
In this paper we present a research project of the research council of St-Joseph University (USJ) at its faculty of engineering (ESIB) in Beirut, Lebanon, in collaboration with professors at INRS-EMT, Montreal Canada. This project aims at addressing the issues of deployment of a Wireless Mesh Network (WMN) on parts of the Lebanese territory, supported by an already installed dense infrastructure of...
In a wireless mesh network, the traffic is aggregated at mesh router and most of them forwarded towards the Internet through GW (Internet gateway). Thus easily leads to a bottleneck for network performance at GW. Aimed to this problem ,we firstly treated the GW and mesh router as the alike node equivalently. Then used the logarithm-normal distribution model of shadow affect in wireless communication...
This paper describes the architecture of a self-configuring multi-hop mobile network and analyse the performance of the ad-hoc routing protocols. A testbed is deployed to analyse the performance of the ad-hoc routing protocols in a self-configuring multi-hop environment. The testbed comprises of a set of mobile nodes and an Internet gateway. The mobility of the nodes and the resulting network topology...
Wireless mesh networks can provide scalable highspeed Internet access at a low cost. Fair channel access among different nodes in the wireless mesh network, however, is an important consideration that needs technological solutions before mesh networks can be widely deployed. Lack of fairness significantly decreases the throughput of nodes that are more than one hop away from mesh gateways. We propose...
IEEE 802.11-based backbone mesh networks comprise of static wireless mesh routers (WMRs) which create a wireless multihop backbone to provide high-speed last-mile wireless Internet access to communities. Specialized WMRs called gateways provide the interconnection between the mesh network and fixed IP networks. Mesh routers perform backhaul routing and may additionally serve as access points (APs)...
Wireless mesh network (WMN) appears to be a promising alternative for next generation wireless networking. Wireless mesh networks have applications ranging from civilian wireless Internet applications to tactical and emergency response applications. Though wireless mesh networks appear as a viable alternative to the existing wireless infrastructure, there are still many issues which require more investigation...
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