Guide to Wireless Mesh Networks
Editors: Misra, Sudip, Misra, Subhas Chandra, Zhang, Isaac (Eds.)
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Wireless communication technologies continue to undergo rapid advancement. The attractiveness of Wireless Mesh Networks (WMN)s, in general, can be attributed to their characteristics: the ability to dynamically self-organize and self-configure, coupled with the ability to maintain mesh connectivity, leads in effect to low set-up/installation costs, simpler maintenance tasks, and service coverage with high reliability and fault-tolerance. As a result, WMNs have found many useful applications in a broad range of domains.
WMNs represent a key technology for future generation wireless networks, and this broad-ranging and comprehensive guidebook presents new ideas and results from research to address the challenges ahead. This unique resource describes all the fundamental key topics and covers both the important core and specialized issues in the field. Each chapter is written by topical area experts, with the first chapters devoted to the basics of WMNs and subsequent ones dealing with some of the more specialist topics, such as the WiMAX metro area mesh networks and the symbiosis of cognitive radio with WMNs.
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• Provides an accessible, comprehensive overview of the state-of-the-art technology of Wireless Mesh Networks
• Includes reader-friendly discussions for practitioners, directions for future research, helpful lists of terms and definitions, and summary questions within each chapter
• Offers a set of questions to help readers assess their understanding of the various concepts at the end of each chapter
• Presents insight into the practical significance of these topics in real-world scenarios
• Designed, in structure and content, to aid the learning process with the intention of making the book useful at all learning levels
• Supplies supportive presentation PowerPoint slides and solutions to aid lecturers at www.springer.com/978-1-84800-908-0
With contributions by some of the most prominent researchers in the field today, this book will be an invaluable reference/text to WMNs for researchers and practitioners. In addition, its pedagogical tools can make it eminently suitable as a textbook for graduate students wishing to learn more about the topic.
Key Topics:
WMNs and MANETs
Medium Access
Routing and Channel Assignment
Routing Metrics
Congestion and Transport Layer Issues
Multi-network Convergence and Scalability
Mobility
- Table of contents (19 chapters)
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Journey from Mobile Ad Hoc Networks to Wireless Mesh Networks
Pages 1-30
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Medium Access Control in Wireless Mesh Networks
Pages 31-48
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Hierarchical and QoS-Aware Routing in Multihop Wireless Mesh Networks
Pages 49-75
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Stabilizing Interference-Free Slot Assignment for Wireless Mesh Networks
Pages 77-118
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Channel Assignment Techniques for 802.11-Based Multiradio Wireless Mesh Networks
Pages 119-146
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Table of contents (19 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Guide to Wireless Mesh Networks
- Editors
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- Sudip Misra
- Subhas Chandra Misra
- Isaac Zhang
- Series Title
- Computer Communications and Networks
- Copyright
- 2009
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag London
- Copyright Holder
- Springer-Verlag London Ltd., part of Springer Nature
- eBook ISBN
- 978-1-84800-909-7
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-1-84800-909-7
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-1-84800-908-0
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-1-84996-804-1
- Series ISSN
- 1617-7975
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XVI, 528
- Topics