deployment and evaluation of ieee 802.11 based wireless mesh networks in campus environment
Wireless Mesh Networks (WMNs) can be considered as hybrid between wireless infrastructure (WLAN) and ad-hoc networks (MANET), with mesh points providing flexibility in building & expanding the network, allowing automatic discovery of neighboring nodes, increased reliability and redundancy. In this paper we discuss as to how WMNs can be practically deployed to support wireless multihop communications in a campuswide area. To this aim, we have deployed a real WMN at PEC University of Technology campus utilizing state-of-the-art technology and analyzed the performance of this architecture when supporting multihop heterogeneous traffic. Currently the network is being used to provide services to the residential areas of the campus.
wireless mesh network testbed ieee 802.11s draft performance evaluation