Wireless Mesh Networks (WMNs) consist of radio nodes organized in a mesh topology for serving wireless mesh clients to communicate with one another or to connect to the Internet. Nodes in a mesh network can communicate with each other either directly or through one or more intermediate nodes, similar to social networks. WMNs share many common properties with social networks. We first identify t...

Reduction of network deployment and operation costs and integration of wireless access networks with fixed broadband access technologies is a key enabler for small and medium scale enterprises to enter the rapidly growing mobile broadband access market, and introduce innovative services that require pervasive broadband access. Mesh Networks represent an emerging wireless networking technology t...

Wireless mesh networks (WMNs) have emerged as a key technology for next-generation wireless networking. Wireless mesh network is a self-organizing, self-managing and self-healing and thus it is easy and speedy in deployment. Apart from these characteristics, it is low cost and easy maintenance. However, WMNs pose several difficulties in transmission of information, especially time critical appl...

To address deployment schemes over large dispersed geographical area a paradigm shift in the technology was needed. Wireless Mesh Networks (WMN) has emerged as a promising technology to such challenging tasks. As wireless network grows it puts an increased demands in infrastructure based networks.802.11s based WMN is a concrete step that address this paradox to make infrastructure itself wirele...

A Wireless mesh network is a wireless communication between different nodes which are dynamically self-organized and self-configured. The nodes in the network automatically establishing an ad-hoc network and maintaining the mesh connectivity, nodes communicate with each other by forwarding data packets to other nodes in the network. Thus the nodes find a path to the destination node using routi...

A wireless mesh network can be seen as a special type of wireless ad-hoc network. A wireless mesh network often has a more planned configuration, and may be deployed to provide dynamic and cost effective connectivity over a certain geographic area Wireless mesh networks often consist of mesh clients, mesh routers and gateways. In wireless mesh network security of network is one of most concerne...

Support for multimedia quality of service (QoS) is critical and necessary requirement for next generation wireless networks. Wireless Mesh Networking is envisioned as an economically viable paradigm and a promising technology for supporting multimedia QoS. To maximize the aggregate utilization of traffic flows in a multi-hop wireless network, with constraints imposed both due to self-interferen...

Equipping mesh nodes with multiple radios that support multiple wireless channels is considered a promising solution to overcome the capacity limitation of single-radio wireless mesh networks. However, careful and intelligent radio resource management is needed to take full advantage of the extra radios on themesh nodes. Flow-radio assignment and channel assignment procedures should obey the ph...

Wireless mesh networks have the potential to deliver Internet broadband access, wireless local area network coverage and network connectivity for stationary or mobile hosts at low costs both for network operators and customers. The core technology involves a network of wireless routers relaying each others’ packets in a multihop fashion. Many variations on targeted applications and implementati...

The paper considers the newest trends in wireless networks based on the Mesh and Relay systems. The basic idea is to perform date transmission via intermediate relay stations and thus range extension and higher throughput can be achieved. The article further introduces IEEE 802.11s and IEEE 802.16j standards that are at the present time in the process of standardization. These standards propose...