We present our experiences and investigations with an experimental metropolitan multi-radio mesh network that covers an area of approximately 60 Km in the city of Heraklion, Crete. The network consists of 14 nodes, among which six are core nodes with up to four 802.11a wireless interfaces each, and an additional wireless interface for management and monitoring. The distance between core mesh no...

Next generation fixed wireless networks are most likely organized in a mesh structure. The performance of these mesh networks is mainly influenced by the routing scheme and the channel assignment. In this paper, we focus on the routing and channel assignment in large-scale Wireless Mesh Networks to achieve a max-min fair throughput allocation. As most optimization approaches fail to optimize la...

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of the Dissertation Architecture and Protocols for a High-Performance, Secure IEEE 802.11-based Wireless Mesh Network

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1. INTRODUCTION The convenience of wireless networking and lightweight handheld devices has led to a large-scale adoption of wireless technologies. Corporations, universities, hospitals, homes, and public places are deploying these networks at a remarkable rate. Even many cities, such as Buffalo (MN), Ripon (CA), Philadelphia (PA), and Portland (OR), have deployed or are planning to deploy city...

Wireless broadband networks based on the IEEE 802.11 technology are being increasingly deployed as mesh networks to provide users with extended coverage for wireless Internet access. These wireless mesh networks, however, may be deployed by different authorities without any coordination a priori, and hence it is possible that they overlap partially or even entirely in service area, resulting in...