Guide to Wireless Mesh Networks

Jungfang Wang, Bin Xie, Dharma P. Agrawal (auth.), Sudip Misra, Subhas Chandra Misra, Isaac Woungang (eds.)1848009089, 978-1-84800-908-0, 978-1-84800-909-7, 1848009097

Wireless communication technologies continue to undergo rapid advancement. The attractiveness of Wireless Mesh Networks (WMN)s, in general, can be attributed to their characteristics: the ability to dynamically self-organize and self-configure, coupled with the ability to maintain mesh connectivity, leads in effect to low set-up/installation costs, simpler maintenance tasks, and service coverage with high reliability and fault-tolerance. As a result, WMNs have found many useful applications in a broad range of domains.

WMNs represent a key technology for future generation wireless networks, and this broad-ranging and comprehensive guidebook presents new ideas and results from research to address the challenges ahead. This unique resource describes all the fundamental key topics and covers both the important core and specialized issues in the field. Each chapter is written by topical area experts, with the first chapters devoted to the basics of WMNs and subsequent ones dealing with some of the more specialist topics, such as the WiMAX metro area mesh networks and the symbiosis of cognitive radio with WMNs.

Features:

• Provides an accessible, comprehensive overview of the state-of-the-art technology of Wireless Mesh Networks

• Includes reader-friendly discussions for practitioners, directions for future research, helpful lists of terms and definitions, and summary questions within each chapter

• Offers a set of questions to help readers assess their understanding of the various concepts at the end of each chapter

• Presents insight into the practical significance of these topics in real-world scenarios

• Designed, in structure and content, to aid the learning process with the intention of making the book useful at all learning levels

• Supplies supportive presentation PowerPoint slides and solutions to aid lecturers at www.springer.com/978-1-84800-908-0

With contributions by some of the most prominent researchers in the field today, this book will be an invaluable reference/text to WMNs for researchers and practitioners. In addition, its pedagogical tools can make it eminently suitable as a textbook for graduate students wishing to learn more about the topic.

Key Topics:

WMNs and MANETs

Medium Access

Routing and Channel Assignment

Routing Metrics

Congestion and Transport Layer Issues

Multi-network Convergence and Scalability

Mobility

Table of contents :
Front Matter….Pages i-xvi
Journey from Mobile Ad Hoc Networks to Wireless Mesh Networks….Pages 1-30
Medium Access Control in Wireless Mesh Networks….Pages 31-48
Hierarchical and QoS-Aware Routing in Multihop Wireless Mesh Networks….Pages 49-75
Stabilizing Interference-Free Slot Assignment for Wireless Mesh Networks….Pages 77-118
Channel Assignment Techniques for 802.11-Based Multiradio Wireless Mesh Networks….Pages 119-146
Routing, Interface Assignment and Related Cross-layer Issues in Multiradio Wireless Mesh Networks….Pages 147-170
Wireless Mesh Network Routing Under Uncertain Demands….Pages 171-198
Routing Metrics for Wireless Mesh Networks….Pages 199-230
Reliable Transport in Multihop Wireless Mesh Networks….Pages 231-254
Transport Protocols for Wireless Mesh Networks….Pages 255-275
Congestion Control in Wireless Mesh Networks….Pages 277-298
Wireless Mesh Networks-Based Multinetwork Convergence and Security Access….Pages 299-323
Scalability in Wireless Mesh Networks….Pages 325-347
Mobility Management in Wireless Mesh Networks….Pages 349-378
Low Latency in Wireless Mesh Networks….Pages 379-424
WiMAX Metro Area Mesh Networks: Technologies and Challenges….Pages 425-448
Scheduling and Call Admission Control A WiMax Mesh Networks View….Pages 449-469
The Symbiosis of Cognitive Radio and Wireless Mesh Networks….Pages 471-496
Construction and Evaluation of a Wireless Mesh Network Testbed….Pages 497-519
Back Matter….Pages 521-527