Design of Wireless Mesh Networks: Expansion and Reliability Studies

Author

Beljadid, A. ; Hafid, A.S. ; Gendreau, M.

Author_Institution

NRL, Univ. of Montreal, Montreal, QC

fYear

2008

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

Our goal is to propose a unified/generalized model for the Wireless Mesh Networks (WMNs) design problem taking into account all the parameters that have a significant impact on WMNs. In the WMNs design literature, different studies take into account traffic demand, interference, multi-channel, transmission power, potential locations of wireless routers/gateways and node´s characteristics (number of radios/node and number of channels/radio). In this paper, we introduce two new parameters: expansion and reliability. We will focus on refining the WMN design taking into account traffic expansion, geographic expansion and reliability without increasing the investment cost of the design.

Keywords

radio links; radio networks; telecommunication network reliability; telecommunication traffic; geographic expansion; traffic expansion; wireless gateways; wireless mesh networks; wireless node; wireless routers; Cost function; Delay; Interference; Investments; Proposals; Telecommunication traffic; Throughput; Topology; Traffic control; Wireless mesh networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Global Telecommunications Conference, 2008. IEEE GLOBECOM 2008. IEEE

Conference_Location

New Orleans, LO

ISSN

1930-529X

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2324-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/GLOCOM.2008.ECP.139

Filename

4697914