| Wireless mesh networking is a new technology that has the potential to revolutionize how we access the Internet and communicate with co-workers and friends. Wireless Mesh Networks examines the concept and explores its advantages over existing technologies. This book explores existing and future applications, and examines how some of the networking protocols operate. The text offers a detailed analysis of the significant problems affecting wireless mesh networking, including network scale issues, security, and radio frequency interference, and suggests actual and potential solutions for each problem. Although the book's primary focus is the potential use of wireless mesh networks in the commercial marketplace, it enables readers to gain an appreciation for use of the technology in the office, at government agencies, on campus, and in the home.
Approximately every five or ten years we are blessed with the implementation of a technology that can have a major bearing upon how we work, facilitates our productivity, and even enhances our recreational capability. In the past we witnessed the PC revolution, the advent of the PDA, and the growth in the use of wireless LANs. Today a new technology referred to as wireless mesh networking has the potential to considerably influence how we communicate. Although derived from military research into mobile networks, the emergence of wireless mesh networking has its greatest potential in the commercial marketplace and is the primary focus of this book. |
