Wireless Mesh Networks: Architectures and Protocols
TITLE : Wireless Mesh Networks: Architectures and Protocols (Hardcover)
AUTHOR : by Ekram Hossain (Editor), Kin K. Leung (Editor)
PUBLISHER : Springer publisher
ISBN : 0387688382
EDITION : 1st
PUB DATE : November 20, 2007
LANGUAGE : English
The book includes a set of research and survey articles featuring
the recent advances in theory and applications of wireless mesh
networking technology which will be a significant component in the
next generation (e.g., fourth generation) mobile communication
networks. Wireless mesh networks consist of mesh clients and mesh
routers, where the mesh routers form a wireless
infrastructure/backbone and interwork with the wired networks to
provide multihop wireless Internet connectivity to the mesh
clients. Wireless mesh networking has emerged as one of the most
promising concept for self-organizing and auto-configurable
wireless networking to provide adaptive and flexible wireless
Internet connectivity to mobile users. This concept can be used for
different wireless access technologies such as IEEE 802.11, 802.15,
802.16-based WLAN, WPAN, and WMAN technologies. Potential
application scenarios for wireless mesh networks include access and
backhaul support for cellular networks, home networks, enterprise
networks, community networks, and intelligent transport system
networks. Development of wireless mesh networking technology has to
deal with challenging architecture and protocol design issues, and
there is an increasing interest on this technology among the
researchers in both academia and industry. There are many on-going
research projects in different universities and industrial research
labs. Also, many startup companies are building mesh networking
platforms based on off-the-shelf wireless access technologies and
developing demanding applications and services. This book provides
a unified view of the state-of-the-art achievements in the area of
wireless mesh networking technology.
The contributed articles from the leading experts in this field
cover both the theoretical concepts (e.g., information-theoretic
analysis) and system-level implementation issues. The topics
include information-theoretic analysis of wireless mesh networks,
challenges and issues in designing architectures and protocols for
wireless mesh networks, medium access control and routing protocols
for wireless mesh networks, cross-layer performance analysis and
optimization in wireless mesh networks, multimedia over wireless
mesh, trust and security in wireless mesh networks, cooperation and
incentive techniques, reconfigurable and cognitive radio for
wireless mesh networks, MIMO wireless mesh networks, wireless mesh
test-beds and hardware prototypes, and applications and services.
The book starts with the essential background on the basic concepts
and architectures of wireless mesh networking (through one/two
survey articles), and then it presents advanced level materials in
a step-by-step fashion so that the readers can follow the book
easily. The rich set of references in each of the articles are
invaluable to the researchers.
The book is useful for both researchers and practitioners in this
area. Also, it can be adopted as a graduate-level textbook for an
advanced course on wireless communication networks.
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