Mobile Communications Handbook, 3rd Edition

35

Wireless Mesh Networks

 

     Hyunok Lee

35.1 Introduction

35.2 MAC Framework and Protocols

MAC Framework

Control Time Slot Assignment Protocol

Data Time Slot Access Control Protocol

Routing Protocol

35.3 Performance Evaluation

Performance under Two Different ACC Schemes

Performance under Different Mesh Sizes

35.4 Conclusion

References

35.1 Introduction

Multihop wireless communication networks have been of increasing interest over the last decade. Two main types of such networks have emerged: mobile ad-hoc networks (MANETs) and wireless mesh networks (WMNs). MANETs are infrastructure-less, nonhierarchical wireless networks where all network entities can move and function as routers and discover and maintain routes to other entities in the ...