wmns
QoS in Wireless Mesh Networks: Challenges, Pitfalls, and Roadmap to Its Realization
White Paper Wireless Mesh Networks (WMNs) have the potential to lead to a disruptive change in the landscape of wireless communications. Supporting a Quality of Service (QoS) to enable a rich portfolio of applications and scenarios is foreseen to be vital for... [18 Jul 2008]
Wireless Mesh Networks: A Survey
White Paper Wireless Mesh Networks (WMNs) consist of mesh routers and mesh clients, where mesh routers have minimal mobility and form the backbone of WMNs. The integration of WMNs with other networks such as the Internet, cellular, IEEE 802.11, IEEE 802.15... [03 Jul 2008]
Scalable Real-Time Gateway Assignment in Mobile Mesh Networks
White Paper WMNs are now being envisaged to provide citywide "last-mile" access for numerous mobile devices running media-rich applications with stringent Quality of Service (QoS) requirements. Consequently, some current-day conceptions underlying application... [18 Jul 2008]
Mitigating the Gateway Bottleneck Via Transparent Cooperative Caching in Wireless Mesh Networks
White Paper Wireless Mesh Networks (WMNs) have been proposed to provide cheap, easily deployable and robust Internet access. This paper presents MeshCache, a transparent caching system for WMNs that exploits the locality in client Internet-access traffic to... [31 Aug 2007]
Mitigating the Gateway Bottleneck Via Transparent Cooperative Caching in Wireless Mesh Networks
White Paper Wireless Mesh Networks (WMNs) have been proposed to provide cheap, easily deployable and robust Internet access. This paper presents MeshCache, a transparent caching system for WMNs that exploits the locality in client Internet-access traffic to... [10 Aug 2007]
Hybrid Mesh Ad-Hoc On-Demand Distance Vector Routing Protocol
White Paper Wireless Mesh Networks (WMNs) have recently gained increasing attention and have emerged as a technology with great potential for a wide range of applications. WMNs can be considered as a super-set of traditional Mobile Ad-hoc NETworks (MANETs... [03 Sep 2007]
QUORUM - QUality Of Service RoUting in Wireless Mesh Networks
White Paper Wireless Mesh Networks (WMNs) can provide seamless broadband connectivity to network users, with the advantage of low setup and maintenance costs. This paper proposes QUORUM (QUality Of service RoUting in wireless Mesh networks), a routing protocol... [03 Sep 2007]
Performance Evaluation of RescueMesh: A Metro-Scale Hybrid Wireless Network
White Paper In the recent past, Wireless Mesh Networks (WMNs) have become increasingly popular due to the availability of unlicensed spectrum and low cost IEEE 802.11b/a/g-based devices. The future of wireless Internet provisioning will see the convergence of... [23 Jun 2006]
Error Resilient Concurrent Video Streaming Over Wireless Mesh Networks
White Paper This paper proposes a multi-source multi-path video streaming system for supporting high quality concurrent Video-on-Demand (VoD) services over Wireless Mesh Networks (WMNs), and leverage forward error correction to enhance the error resilience of... [25 Aug 2007]
A QoS Provisioning Framework for Wireless Mesh Network
White Paper Moving on from the first generation of Wireless Mesh Networks (WMNs), where community and city-wide type mesh networks are deployed to provide best-effort network access, the next generation WMNs is about extending its capability to allow Quality... [04 Aug 2008]
Connection Management Over an Ethernet Based Wireless Mesh Network
White Paper This paper demonstrates that switched Ethernet is a technology that, with minimal effort, can be used as a base for WMNs. This paper discusses the Wireless Mesh Network developed in the scope of the IBBT Wireless Building Automation project. [08 Jul 2008]
On the Hardness of Minimum Cost Blocking Attacks on Multi-Path Wireless Routing Protocols
White Paper This paper demonstrates the provable superiority of multi-path routing protocols over other conventional protocols against blocking, node-isolation and network-partitioning type-attacks in Wireless Mesh Networks (WMNs) by emulating adversarial... [23 Aug 2007]
On Profitability and Efficiency of Wireless Mesh Networks
White Paper To enable a large-scale wireless network, Wireless Mesh Networks (WMNs) arise as a promising cost-effective solution that provides high network coverage and low infrastructure cost. The convenience of wireless networking and lightweight handheld... [17 May 2006]
Architecting a High-Capacity Last-Mile Wireless Mesh Network
White Paper As a result, conventional single-channel ad hoc network architecture can not be applied to form effective Wireless Mesh Networks (WMNs) that can adequately support the bandwidth requirements of a last-mile wireless broadband access network, or a... [19 Aug 2007]
