Automatic Android-based Wireless Mesh Networks

Android devices are portable, equipped with powerful processors, and can act as both mesh routers and clients through Wi-Fi Direct, making them a suitable platform from which to deploy a wireless mesh network. To allow Android devices to automatically establish and participate in a wireless mesh network, we circumvent two key problems of the Android’s Wi-Fi APIs: lack of direct support for ad-hoc networking / many-to-one Wi-Fi Direct connections, and Wi-Fi Direct WPS authentication limiting applications to ones which require intermittent user interaction.