6.1 Introduction Wireless networks enable ubiquitous information and computational resource access , and become a popular networking solution. Recently, wireless mesh networks (WMN) [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7] have attracted increasing attention and deployment as a high-performance and low-cost solution to last-mile broadband Internet access. In this chapter, we study the problem of resource allocati...

Authentication and Key Management (AKM) in Wireless Networks have been addressed in the IEEE 802.11i standard [10]. However, the IEEE 802.11s [21] Wireless Mesh Networks impose some further AKM requirements due to their large scale, distributed functionalities and decentralized authority. According to the IEEE 802.11s specifications, any security solutions should rely on IEEE 802.11i mechanisms...

Wireless Mesh Networks (WMNs) are an emerging trend in wireless communication: more flexible, reliable and effective than the other competitive wireless technologies. In this paper, we present a generalized fuzzy logic and cluster based architecture based scheme for energy aware routing in wireless mesh networks. Here, we considered a cluster-based architecture for WMN, where a group of nodes i...

After years of research on ad hoc networks, practical wireless mesh networks are moving towards mainstream industry deployment. As wireless mesh networks become more ubiquitous, how to enable distributed applications and services is a challenging research topic. A new network architecture called OverMesh is recently proposed, in which computational overlays provide the facility to deploy distri...

55 Wireless mesh networks combine three key features: the use of wireless transmission , the multi-hop nature of the end-to-end communication, and the availability of multiple paths. While each of these features raises a host of technical issues, at the same time they provide those advantages that make wireless mesh networks appealing. For instance, wireless transmission offers ubiquitous cover...

----Wireless mesh networks based on IEEE 802.11 technology are a scalable and efficient solution for next generation wireless networking to provide wide-area wideband internet access to a significant number of users. The deployment of these wireless mesh networks may be within different authorities and without any planning, they are potentially overlapped partially or completely in the same ser...

Designing routing metrics is critical for performance in wireless mesh networks. The unique characteristics of mesh networks, such as static nodes and the shared nature of the wireless medium, invalidate existing solutions from both wired and wireless networks and impose unique requirements on designing routing metrics for mesh networks. In this paper, we focus on identifying these requirements...

Wireless mesh networks are the next step in the evolution of wireless architecture, delivering wireless services for a large variety of applications in personal, local, campus, and metropolitan areas. Unlike WLANs, Mesh networks are self-configuring systems where each Access Point (AP) can relay messages on behalf of others, thus increasing the range and available bandwidth. Therefore, the key ...

With the evolution of mobile communication networks, three-dimensional graphics applications and services are fast developing fields in mobile graphics and wireless networks. While the data size of 3D meshes is increasing, the available bandwidth of wireless networks and the weak resources of mobile devices have become relatively limited. The transmission of graphics multimedia over wireless ne...

With the rapid development of Ad hoc networks and a wireless mesh networks (WLAN) will become the next generation of new broadband wireless network with characters of multi-hop, self-organizing, self-healing, high robustness and high bandwidth. Through in-depth study of the network performance, It is observed that there is a serious interference and network connectivity issues between Wireless ...