Wireless Mesh Networks
Published on 28. January 2009
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324 pages
978-0-470-03256-5 (ISBN)
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Description
Going beyond classic networking principles and architectures for better wireless performance
Written by authors with vast experience in academia and industry, Wireless Mesh Networks provides its readers with a thorough overview and in-depth understanding of the state-of-the-art in wireless mesh networking. It offers guidance on how to develop new ideas to advance this technology, and how to support emerging applications and services. The contents of the book follow the TCP/IP protocol stack, starting from the physical layer. Functionalities and existing protocols and algorithms for each protocol layer are covered in depth. The book is written in an accessible textbook style, and contains supporting materials such as problems and exercises to assist learning.
Key Features:
*Presents an in-depth explanation of recent advances and open research issues in wireless mesh networking, and offers concrete and comprehensive material to guide deployment and product development
*Describes system architectures and applications of wireless mesh networks (WMNs), and discusses the critical factors influencing protocol design
*Explores theoretical network capacity and the state-of-the-art protocols related to WMNs
*Surveys standards that have been specified and standard drafts that are being specified for WMNs, in particular the latest standardization results in IEEE 802.11s, 802.15.5, 802.16 mesh mode, and 802.16 relay mode
*Includes an accompanying website with PPT-slides, further reading, tutorial material, exercises, and solutions
Advanced students on networking, computer science, and electrical engineering courses will find Wireless Mesh Networks an essential read. It will also be of interest to wireless networking academics, researchers, and engineers at universities and in industry.
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Dr. Ian F. Akyildiz is Ken Byers Distinguished Chair Professor in Telecommunications, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, and Director of the Broadband and Wireless Networking Laboratory. Current research interests are Sensor Networks, InterPlanetary Internet, Wireless Networks, Satellite Networks and Next Generation Internet. ?Ian has published over 200 journal and conference papers, is Editor-in-Chief of Computer Networks and Ad Hoc Networks Journals (Elsevier), and an Editor for ACM-Kluwer Journal of Wireless Networks. Ian is an IEEE Fellow (1996) with the citation: "For contributions to performance analysis of computer communication networks," and an ACM Fellow (1997) "for fundamental research contributions in: finite capacity queuing network models; performance evaluation of Time Warp parallel simulations; traffic Control in ATM networks, and mobility management in wireless networks".
Dr. Xudong Wang is Senior Research Engineer at KIYON Inc., where he conducts research and development of MAC, routing, and transport protocols for wireless mesh networks. Research interests also include software radios, cross-layer design, communication protocols for cellular networks, mobile ad hoc networks, sensor networks, and ultra-wideband networks. He has two patents pending in wireless mesh networks. He is technical committee member of several international conferences, has been a reviewer for numerous international journals, and is guest editor for the Special Issue on Wireless Mesh Networking in IEEE Wireless Communications.
Dr. Xudong Wang is Senior Research Engineer at KIYON Inc., where he conducts research and development of MAC, routing, and transport protocols for wireless mesh networks. Research interests also include software radios, cross-layer design, communication protocols for cellular networks, mobile ad hoc networks, sensor networks, and ultra-wideband networks. He has two patents pending in wireless mesh networks. He is technical committee member of several international conferences, has been a reviewer for numerous international journals, and is guest editor for the Special Issue on Wireless Mesh Networking in IEEE Wireless Communications.
Content
Contents
Preface
1 Introduction
1.1 Network Architecture
1.2 Characteristics
1.3 Application Scenarios
1.4 Critical Design Factors
2 Physical Layer
2.1 Adaptive Coding/Modulation and Link Adaptation
2.2 Directional Antennas and Multi-Antenna Systems
2.3 Cooperative Diversity and Cooperative Communications
2.4 Multi-Channel Systems
2.5 Advanced Radio Technologies
2.6 Integrating Different Advanced Techniques: IEEE 802.11n
2.7 Open Research Issues
3 Medium Access Control Layer
3.1 Single Channel MAC Protocols
3.2 Multi-Channel MAC Protocols
3.3 Open Research Issues
4 Network Layer
4.1 Routing Challenges
4.2 Design Principles
4.3 Topology Discovery for Routing
4.4 Performance Parameters
4.5 Routing Metrics
(WCETT)
4.6 Categories of Routing Protocols
4.7 Hop-Count Based Routing Protocols
4.8 Link-Level QoS Based Routing Protocols
4.9 Interference Based Routing: IRMA
4.10 Routing with Load Balancing
4.11 Routing Based on Residual Link Capacity
4.12 End-to-End QoS Routing
4.13 Reliability Based Routing: Multi-Path Routing
4.14 Stability Based Routing
4.15 Scalable Routing
4.16 Multi-Channel Routing Protocols
4.17 Open Research Issues
5 Transport Layer
5.1 Challenges of a Transport Layer Protocol in Wireless Environments
5.2 Transport Layer Protocols for Multihop Ad Hoc Networks
5.3 Transport Layer Protocols for WMNs
5.4 Open Research Issues
6 Network Security
6.1 Security Attacks in WMNs
6.2 Counter-Attack Measures
6.3 Security Schemes in Related Wireless Networks
6.4 Security Mechanisms forWMNs
6.5 Multi-Layer Design for WMN Security
7 Network Control and Management
7.1 Mobility Management
7.2 Power Management
7.3 Topology Control and Management
7.4 Timing Synchronization
7.5 Traditional Network Management Functions
8 Network Capacity
8.1 Capacity Analysis
8.2 Capacity and Delay Tradeoff
8.3 Applicability of Asymptotic Capacity Analysis to WMNs
9 Cross-Layer Design
9.1 Motivations of Cross-Layer Design
9.2 Cross-Layer Design Protocols and Optimization Algorithms
9.3 Prudent Use of Cross-Layer Design
10 Standards on Wireless Mesh Networks
10.1 Overview of IEEE 802Working Groups forWireless Networks
10.2 Overview of Industry Alliance/Forum for DifferentWireless Technologies
10.3 Standards for MeshedWireless LANs
10.4 Standards for MeshedWireless PANs
10.5 Standards for MeshedWireless MANs
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