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Chapter 17
Wireless Mesh Network:
Design, Modeling,
Simulation, and Analysis
Christos K. Zachos and Jonathan Loo
In the previous chapter, the existing wireless technologies, architectures, and protocols, their
strengths and weaknesses, and how they can be improved to accommodate the special needs
of wireless mesh networks (WMNs) have been thoroughly discussed. is chapter aims to
design a realistic form of a WMN that is functional, scalable, and low-cost as a municipality
area network. As WMNs are not an established and well-defined technology, to set the realistic
environment, their applications and their needs should be well-defined. ...