
430 ◾ Mobile Ad Hoc Networks: Current Status and Future Trends
16.4 WMN Components
ere are four distinct components that can be considered as parts of WMN architecture: mesh
clients, mesh routers, mesh gateways, and MANET stations.
Mesh clients (MC) can, and should, be any devices that support wireless connection to today’s
single-hop wireless networks. It is crucial for the ease of deployment and the acceptance of WMN
that network clouds be transparent to the end devices, and that their participation should be off-
the-shelf without further modification.
Mesh routers (MR) do not originate or terminate any data flows. ey are relay points that ...