Wireless Mesh Networks (WMNs) are one of the few commonly implemented
types of mobile ad-hoc networks (MANETs); several companies offer
WMNs for broadband Internet access and for extending the coverage
of wireless local area networks. Several particularities differentiate
WMNs from MANETs. First, in WMNs, most of the traffic originates
or terminates at the gateways (nodes connected to the wired infrastructure/Internet).
Second, in most applications, WMN nodes tend to be neatly differentiated
as either stationary nodes (providing connectivity and coverage)
or mobile nodes (utilizing the coverage afforded by the stationary
nodes). While general MANET routing protocols can be used in WMNs,
it is expected that a protocol that takes the particularities of
WMNs into account will outperform the general protocol. In this paper,
we propose such a routing protocol and evaluate its performance via
simulations. Results show that, for WMNs, the proposed routing protocol
outperforms general purpose MANET protocols in terms of routing overhead,
packet delivery ratio, network throughput, end-to-end delay, and
average hop-count.
Wireless Mesh Networks (WMN) appear to the the subset of MANETs that
are really being accepted into modern terminology. This paper should
serve as a primer on WMN terminology and help me bridge the terminology
gap. The article is about a WMN routing protocol.
%0 Journal Article
%1 Jun08
%A Jun, Jangeun
%A Sichitiu, Mihail L.
%C Newton, MA, USA
%D 2008
%I Butterworth-Heinemann
%J Comput. Commun.
%K Routing_protocol Tree_formation mesh network wireless
%P 1413--1435
%R 10.1016/j.comcom.2008.01.038
%T MRP: Wireless mesh networks routing protocol
%U http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1365084.1365163
%V 31
%X Wireless Mesh Networks (WMNs) are one of the few commonly implemented
types of mobile ad-hoc networks (MANETs); several companies offer
WMNs for broadband Internet access and for extending the coverage
of wireless local area networks. Several particularities differentiate
WMNs from MANETs. First, in WMNs, most of the traffic originates
or terminates at the gateways (nodes connected to the wired infrastructure/Internet).
Second, in most applications, WMN nodes tend to be neatly differentiated
as either stationary nodes (providing connectivity and coverage)
or mobile nodes (utilizing the coverage afforded by the stationary
nodes). While general MANET routing protocols can be used in WMNs,
it is expected that a protocol that takes the particularities of
WMNs into account will outperform the general protocol. In this paper,
we propose such a routing protocol and evaluate its performance via
simulations. Results show that, for WMNs, the proposed routing protocol
outperforms general purpose MANET protocols in terms of routing overhead,
packet delivery ratio, network throughput, end-to-end delay, and
average hop-count.
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types of mobile ad-hoc networks (MANETs); several companies offer
WMNs for broadband Internet access and for extending the coverage
of wireless local area networks. Several particularities differentiate
WMNs from MANETs. First, in WMNs, most of the traffic originates
or terminates at the gateways (nodes connected to the wired infrastructure/Internet).
Second, in most applications, WMN nodes tend to be neatly differentiated
as either stationary nodes (providing connectivity and coverage)
or mobile nodes (utilizing the coverage afforded by the stationary
nodes). While general MANET routing protocols can be used in WMNs,
it is expected that a protocol that takes the particularities of
WMNs into account will outperform the general protocol. In this paper,
we propose such a routing protocol and evaluate its performance via
simulations. Results show that, for WMNs, the proposed routing protocol
outperforms general purpose MANET protocols in terms of routing overhead,
packet delivery ratio, network throughput, end-to-end delay, and
average hop-count.},
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review = {Wireless Mesh Networks (WMN) appear to the the subset of MANETs that
are really being accepted into modern terminology. This paper should
serve as a primer on WMN terminology and help me bridge the terminology
gap. The article is about a WMN routing protocol.},
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