Chapter 4. Mesh Networks – Basics
- Bernhard H. Walke1,
- Stefan Mangold2,
- Lars Berlemann1
Published Online: 11 DEC 2006
DOI: 10.1002/9780470058800.ch4
Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd
Book Title
IEEE 802 Wireless Systems: Protocols, Multi-Hop Mesh/Relaying, Performance and Spectrum Coexistence
Additional Information
How to Cite
Hiertz, G., Weiss, E. and Walke, B. H. (2006) Mesh Networks – Basics, in IEEE 802 Wireless Systems: Protocols, Multi-Hop Mesh/Relaying, Performance and Spectrum Coexistence (eds B. H. Walke, S. Mangold and L. Berlemann), John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK. doi: 10.1002/9780470058800.ch4
Editor Information
- 1
ComNets, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
- 2
Swisscom Innovations, Switzerland
Publication History
- Published Online: 11 DEC 2006
- Published Print: 17 NOV 2006
ISBN Information
Print ISBN: 9780470014394
Online ISBN: 9780470058800
- Summary
- Chapter
Keywords:
- mesh network basics;
- wireless mesh network capability in relay frames;
- wireless mesh networks classification;
- single-hop frames (inside BSS) and multi-hop frames (in ESS);
- radio channel capacity exploitation by spatial reuse;
- fairness and congestion avoidance;
- Flow Admission Control (FAsC);
- Early Route Rearrangement (ERRA) protocol and Ad-Hoc On-Demand Distance Vector Routing (AODV)
Summary
This chapter contains sections titled:
Introduction
Classification of Wireless Mesh Networks
General Problem Statement
Exploiting the Capacity of the Radio Channel by Spatial Reuse
Fairness and Congestion Avoidance
Routing
Summary