Title :
Mesh Net Viewer: A Visualization System for Wireless Mesh Networks
Author :
Kumata, Yuki ; Koyama, Akio
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Inf., Yamagata Univ., Yonezawa, Japan
Abstract :
Wireless Mesh Networks (WMN) consist of several Access Points (APs) of Wireless Local Area Networks (WLAN) interconnected through wireless link. Though the WMN are superior to scalability and flexibility, the network structure becomes complex with increasing of APs. As the results, it is difficult for network manager to grasp an equipment failure and performance degradation occurred in WMN quickly and accurately. In this paper, we propose a visualization system for WMN to realize the management of WMN intuitively. In the proposed system, it is possible to visualize some information in WMN, such as node configuration, network topology, communication route to gateway (GW), and captured packets. In order to evaluate the proposed system, we constructed WMN and implemented the system. We showed the effectiveness of the proposed system by verifying the information collection time for the number of hops and the number of nodes.
Keywords :
internetworking; telecommunication network management; telecommunication network topology; wireless LAN; wireless mesh networks; WLAN; WMN; access points; captured packets; communication route to gateway; equipment failure; information collection time; mesh net viewer; network manager; network structure; network topology; node configuration; performance degradation; visualization system; wireless link; wireless local area networks; wireless mesh networks; Context; Educational institutions; IP networks; Internet; Network topology; Routing protocols; Visualization; Internet Connection Sharing; Network management; SoftAP; Visualization system; Wireless mesh networks; olsrd;
Conference_Titel :
Broadband and Wireless Computing, Communication and Applications (BWCCA), 2013 Eighth International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Compiegne
DOI :
10.1109/BWCCA.2013.22
