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Mesh Networks: Decentralized, Self-Forming, Self-Healing Networks That Achieve Unprecedented Coverage, Throughput, Flexibility and Cost Efficiency
White Papers Mesh networks technology is helping to enable the 4th generation of wireless mobility by using basic Radio Frequency (RF) physics in a new way - overcoming inherent limitations to achieve unprecedented coverage, throughput, flexibility and cost...
[August 15, 2009, 1:20]
Mesh Technology Primer - The Evolution of Wi-Fi: From Hot Spots to Hot Zones to Municipal Networks
White Papers Proxim's ORiNOCO Mesh Creation Protocol is a dynamic, low overhead solution that addresses the major challenges of deploying Wi-Fi cells outdoors for municipal broadband networks. The paper applied significant innovation to solve the issues of self...
[August 4, 2006, 1:00]
Design and Performance Study for a Mobility Management Mechanism (WMM) Using Location Cache for Wireless Mesh Networks
White Papers Wireless Mesh Networks (WMNs) have emerged as one of the major technologies for 4G high-speed mobile networks. In a WMN, a mesh backhaul connects the WMN with the Internet, and Mesh Access Points (MAPs) provide wireless network access service to...
[December 2, 2009, 23:00]
Joint Channel Assignment and Routing for Throughput Optimization in Multi-Radio Wireless Mesh Networks
White Papers Infrastructure Wireless Mesh Networks (IWMNs) are increasingly been deployed for commercial use and law enforcement. For these IWMNs, topology change is infrequent and the variability of aggregate traffic demand from each mesh router (client...
[December 13, 2006, 0:00]
Performance Evaluation of a Hybrid Testbed for Wireless Mesh Networks
White Papers Wireless Mesh Networks (WMN) are supposed to provide flexible and high-performance wireless network access for large indoor and outdoor areas, e.g.community networking and metropolitan area networks. However, these claims are mostly substantiated...
[December 2, 2009, 23:00]
Practical Rate-Based Congestion Control for Wireless Mesh Networks
White Papers This paper introduces an adaptive pacing scheme to overcome the drawbacks of TCP in wireless mesh networks with Internet connectivity. The pacing scheme is implemented at the wireless TCP sender as well as at the mesh gateway, and reacts according...
[December 2, 2009, 23:00]
MESHCHORD: A Location-Aware, Cross-Layer Specialization of Chord for Wireless Mesh Networks
White Papers Wireless mesh networks are a promising area for the deployment of new wireless communication and networking technologies. Starting from the well-known Chord protocol for resource sharing in wired networks, the paper proposes a specialization...
[December 2, 2009, 23:00]
A Novel Channel Assignment Algorithm for Multicast in Multi-Radio Wireless Mesh Networks
White Papers This paper considers the problem of channel assignment for multicast in multi-radio Wireless Mesh Networks (WMNs), which have not been studied up to now. With the development of Internet, many new applications with obvious multicast character come...
[December 2, 2009, 23:00]
SOAR: Simple Opportunistic Adaptive Routing Protocol for Wireless Mesh Networks
White Papers Multihop wireless mesh networks are becoming a new attractive communication paradigm owing to their low cost and ease of deployment. Routing protocols are critical to the performance and reliability of wireless mesh networks.
[December 2, 2009, 23:00]
Identity Deployment and Management in Wireless Mesh Networks
White Papers The extension of the radio range of access points using wireless relays is usually called wireless mesh networks. Mesh networks may be combined with mobile ad hoc routing and have its radio range extended even more using mobile client devices as...
[December 2, 2009, 23:00]
Routing With Load-Balancing in Multi-Radio Wireless Mesh Networks
White Papers This paper addresses the interference and load imbalance problems in multi-radio infrastructure mesh networks where each mesh node is equipped with multiple radio interfaces and a subset of nodes serve as Internet gateways.
[December 2, 2009, 23:00]
SWARM: The Power of Structure in Community Wireless Mesh Networks
White Papers Research has focused on optimizing network performance through intelligent routing and scheduling, borrowing solutions from mesh networks. Community Wireless Networks (CWNs) have been proposed to spread broadband network access to underprivileged...
[December 2, 2009, 23:00]
QoS in Wireless Mesh Networks: Challenges, Pitfalls, and Roadmap to Its Realization
White Papers Wireless Mesh Networks (WMNs) have the potential to lead to a disruptive change in the landscape of wireless communications. IEEE 802.16's mesh mode and IEEE 802.11s) are not perfectly equipped to cater to this task.
[July 18, 2008, 1:01]
Interference-Aware IEEE 802.16 WiMax Mesh Networks
White Papers To realize the full potential of such high-speed IEEE 802.16 mesh networks, two efficient wireless radio resource allocation extensions were developed. The IEEE 802.16 WiMax standard provides a mechanism for creating multi-hop mesh, which can be...
[August 11, 2005, 6:00]
On Multicasting in Wavelength-Routing Mesh Networks
White Papers This paper considers multicasting on wavelength-routing mesh optical networks. The paper discusses the challenges of multicast support in optical wavelength routing networks, and reports on the advances made so far in this venue.
[July 18, 2008, 1:01]
HEAT: Scalable Routing in Wireless Mesh Networks Using Temperature Fields
White Papers Existing unicast routing protocols like for example AODV are not suited well for wireless mesh networks as in such networks, most traffic flows between a large number of mobile nodes and a few access points with Internet connectivity.
[August 1, 2007, 1:00]
A Low Overhead Architecture for Infrastructure-Based Wireless Mesh Networks
White Papers Infrastructure-based Wireless Mesh Networks are envisioned as a cheap, flexible and appropriate technology to expand the radio coverage of network service providers and to create community networks. This paper proposes a low overhead architecture...
[December 2, 2009, 23:00]
Congestion Control and Channel Assignment in Multi-Radio Wireless Mesh Networks
White Papers This paper addresses the problem of congestion control in multi-radio, multi-channel, wireless mesh networks. Compared to its single radio counterpart for which solutions exist, this problem is significantly more complex because it requires the...
[November 26, 2009, 23:00]
Capacity Analysis of Wireless Mesh Networks With Omni or Directional Antennas
White Papers Wireless mesh networks receive much research interest in recent years. The clients in wireless mesh networks are directly connected with the non-gateway nodes or gateway nodes by wireless links and access the Internet by the mesh backbone, which is...
[December 2, 2009, 23:00]
Energy-Aware and QoS Routing in 6LoWPAN Mesh Networks
White Papers A routing protocol is needed for the mesh topology approach, which must take into account the very limited features of the network This paper proposes an energy aware QoS routing protocol for 6LoWPAN based on extension of 6LoWPAN Ad Hoc Routing...
[July 18, 2008, 1:01]
