Wireless Mesh Networking: Architectures, Protocols and Standards...

Features

• Cover Type: Hard Cover with 608 pages
• Published by: Auerbach Publications
• Edition: 1st Edition December 13, 2006
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 0849373999
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0849373992
• Book Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.4 x 1.4 inches
• Weighs: 2.1 pounds

Product Description
A promising new technology, wireless mesh networks are playing an increasingly important role in the future generations of wireless mobile networks. Characterized by dynamic self-organization, self-configuration, and self-healing to enable quick deployment, easy maintenance, low cost, high scalability, and reliable services, this technology is becoming a vital mode complementary to the infrastructure-based wireless networks. Wireless Mesh Networking: Architectures, Protocols and Standards is the first book to provide engineers, students, faculties, researchers, and designers with a comprehensive technical guide covering introductory concepts. It addresses advanced and open issues in wireless mesh networks and explores various key challenges and diverse scenarios as well as emerging standards such as those for capacity, scalability, extensibility, reliability, and cognition. It focuses on concepts, effective protocols, system integration, performance analysis techniques, simulation, experiments, and future research directions. This volume contains illustrative figures and allows for complete cross-referencing on routing, security, spectrum management, MAC, cross-layer optimization, load-balancing, multimedia communication, MIMO, and smart antenna, etc. It also details information on the particular techniques for efficiently improving the performance of a wireless mesh network. Presenting a solid introduction, Wireless Mesh Networking: Architectures, Protocols and Standards elucidates problems and challenges in designing wireless mesh networks.

Reader Reviews
One of the rapidly developing research areas in the computer field today, Wireless Mesh Networking is applying mesh techniques to the wireless world. This is providing fault tolerence, broadband capability, and simplicity in setting up a network. This book describes the state of the art in Wireless Mesh Networking as it exists today. It is written by a series of researchers from around the world. The book is presented in three sections: Part I: Architectures, which describes the various issues and solutions that are being developed, mostly in conjunction with the IEEE 802.11 standard. Part II: Protocols, routing, access control, security, scalability, load balancing, optimization, multimedia, multiple antenna techniques. Part III: Standardization and Enabling Technologies, IEEE 802.11s, IEEE 802.16, and additional chapters. This is a rapidly developing area that is likely to see tremendous growth in the next few years.