An Experimental Study of Multimedia Traffic Performance in Mesh Networks

In the abstract the authors make the statement that testbed experiments facilitate a better understanding of network and application characteristics. I would expect them to make the case as to why the UCSB MeshNet testbed is better than other testbeds and perhaps spend a little time on the ways in which testbeds experiments in general can provide insights not available in simulation or emulation. I will be looking for the promised video and voice traffic evaluations. I will be expecting further explanation of the network card interface configuration experiments, however, this does sound interesting. The authors promise some suggestions for improved performance, presumably this is from the NC configuration parameters and will be demonstrated by some experiments. The authors also make the statement that this study is beneficial for capacity planning and protocol design. I will be looking for this tie in. Overall a decent abstract. I think the NC configuration parameters makes the paper interesting.