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Wireless mesh networks (WMNs) have recently received a great deal of attention as a
promising cost-effective solution to provide coverage and broadband wireless
connectivity for mobile users to get access to different IP applications and services.
The factor that has helped WMNs become attractive is the wide application prospects
from the wireless community, home and enterprise networking. Moreover, wireless
mesh technologies are becoming more and more popular in the context of their
integration with heterogeneous next generation networks for purposes of backhaul
support, traffic offloading, load balancing, fixed-mobile convergence, etc.
However, making these WMNs operationally efficient is a challenging task. In recent
years, there has been a lot of work on research issues. Nevertheless, there still exist
some open research challenges related to link scheduling, channel assignment, routing
and other network planning issues in multi-radio multi-channel WMNs. The main
objective of this book is to highlight some recent efforts in developing novel efficient
design strategies and efficient algorithms to significantly improve performance and
functionality of WMNs. The results presented in this book are expected to help in
taking design decisions when deploying WMNs.
Ten contributed chapters written by a group of well-known experts in wireless mesh
networking are arranged in two sections. |
