Path selection protocols for IEEE 802.11s wlan mesh networks

• Main Authors: Bari, S. M. Sadakatil, Anwar, Farhat
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: IIUM Press 2011
• Subjects: TK7800 Electronics. Computer engineering. Computer hardware. Photoelectronic devices
• Online Access: http://irep.iium.edu.my/21936/1/Path_Selection_Protocols.pdf; http://irep.iium.edu.my/21936/; http://rms.research.iium.edu.my/bookstore/default.aspx
• Institution: Universiti Islam Antarabangsa Malaysia

Wireless mesh networks (WMN) have been envisioned as an impol1ant solution to the next generation wireless networking. It is a special kind of multihop wireless network that consists of mesh routers and mesh clients [I]. Typically. mesh routers are static and power-enabled and they !(xm a wireless backbone for the WMNs while connected with the wired networks to prm ide multi-hop wireless intemet connectivity to the mesh clients. Mesh clients may be mobile and they can access the network via mesh routers or directly by forming a mesh with each other.