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Ebook: Wireless Mesh Networking

Architectures, Protocols and Standards

Wireless Mesh Networks (WMN) are believed to be a highly promising technology and will play an increasingly important role in future generation wireless mobile networks. WMN is characterized by dynamic self-organization, self-configuration and self-healing to enable quick deployment, easy maintenance, low cost, high scalability and reliable services, as well as enhancing network capacity, connectivity and resilience. Due to these advantages, international standardization organizations are actively calling for specifications for mesh networking modes, e.g., IEEE 802.11, IEEE 802.15, IEEE 802.16 and IEEE 802.20. As a great extension to the ad hoc network, WMN is becoming an important mode complementary to the infrastructurebased wireless networks. The experiences obtained from studying and deploying WMN provide us knowledge and reference to the future networks evolution.

Wireless Mesh Networking: Architectures, Protocols and Standards provides a comprehensive technical guide covering introductory concepts, fundamental techniques, recent advances and open issues in wireless mesh networks. It focuses on concepts, effective protocols, system integration, performance analysis techniques, simulation,experiments, and future directions. It explores various key challenges, diverse scenarios and emerging standards such as those for capacity,coverage, scalability, extensibility, reliability, and cognition. This volume contains illustrative figures and complete cross-referencing on routing, security, spectrum management, medium access, cross-layer optimization, load-balancing, multimedia communication, MIMO, and smart antennas, etc. It also details information on particular techniques for efficiently improving the performance of a wireless mesh network.

This book is organized in three parts:
Part I: Architectures
Part II: Protocols
Part III: Standardization and Enabling Technologies

In Part I, WMN fundamentals are briefly introduced as are various types of network architecture. Part II concentrates on the techniques necessary to enable a complete, secure and reliable wireless network, including routing, security, medium access control (MAC), scalability, load balancing, cross layer optimization, scheduling, multimedia communication, MIMO (or multiple antenna system). Part III explores standardization activities and particular mesh network specifications in the emerging standards, for instance, mesh mode in the IEEE 802.11

Wireless LAN and in the IEEE 802.16 WiMAX. In addition, the applications of mesh networks in emergency management, and public safety are exploited.

This book has the following salient features:
Provides a comprehensive reference on state-of-the-art technologies for wireless mesh networks
Identifies basic concepts, techniques, advanced research topics and future directions
Contains illustrative figures that enable easy understanding of wireless mesh networks
Allows complete cross-referencing via the broad coverage of different layers of protocol stacks
Details particular techniques for efficiently improving the performance of wireless mesh networks

This book can serve as a useful reference for students, educators, faculties, telecom service providers, research strategists, scientists, researchers, and engineers in the fields of wireless networks and mobile communications.

We would like to acknowledge the effort and time invested by all contributors for their excellent work. They were extremely professional and cooperative. Special thanks go to Richard O’Hanley, Kim Hackett, Catherine Giacari, Glenon Butler and Jessica Vakili of Taylor & Francis Group for their support, patience and professionalism from the beginning to the final stage. We are grateful for Suryakala Arulprakasam for her great efforts during the typesetting period. Last but not least, a special thank you to our families and friends for their constant encouragement, patience and understanding throughout this project.

Edited by
Yan Zhang • Jijun Luo • Honglin Hu
International Standard Book Number-10: 0-8493-7399-9
© 2007 by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC

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