Castillo-Tito, Julio

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Advanced wireless mesh networks: design and implementation
(2010) Castillo-Tito, Julio; Lu, Kejie; College of Engineering; Ierkic, Henrick-Mario; Rivera, Pedro I.; Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering; Acar, Robert
Wireless Mesh Networks (WMNs) have emerged as a fundamental technology for the next generation of Wireless Networking. They are formed by mesh routers and mesh clients. Mesh routers have minimal mobility and usually do not have en- ergy constraints. On the other hand, mesh clients are mobile and energy constrained. WMNs are self-forming, self-healing and self-organizing. Their easy configuration and deployment make them an economical, reliable and simple solution that can be implemented anywhere at any time. WMNs have been applied to many areas such as education, government, industry, academia and military. The purpose of this thesis is to design and implement two WMN testbeds using the MAC Layer Routing Protocol (MACRT) and apply them in the Development of a Versatile Service-Oriented Wireless Mesh Network project (VESO-MESH). The analysis, design and implementation have been done using commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) hardware and free software. The operating systems are based on Linux distributions. The wireless driver is a Madwifi modified version. The cards used were PCI, miniPCI and PCMCIA; which are based on Atheros chipset. The mesh routers and mesh clients used were laptops, PCs, AOpen computers, Alix 2D2 boards, and a Pocket PC.