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The real gain of cross-layer routing in wireless mesh networks

Published: 26 May 2006 Publication History

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Despite the large amount of research performed on wireless networking, test-beds are still limited in number and size. This paper shows the results of our efforts in building and deploying a test-bed, using the Wireless Mesh Net-work (WMN) architecture. This platform is composed of MeshDVboxes our custom Wireless Mesh Router (WMR), built up from off-the-shelf hardware and open source software. As a routing protocol we use two versions (with and without cross-layer metrics) of MeshDV a simple routing protocol expressly designed for WMNs. Our tests show that in cases where traditional hop-count metric compromises network connectivity, cross-layer routing has still non-negligible performance.

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REALMAN '06: Proceedings of the 2nd international workshop on Multi-hop ad hoc networks: from theory to reality
May 2006
142 pages
ISBN:1595933603
DOI:10.1145/1132983
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  1. cross-layer routing
  2. performance measurements
  3. test-bed deployement
  4. wireless mesh networks

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  • (2008)Instant Handoffs for Wireless Infrastructure Meshed Networks2008 Australasian Telecommunication Networks and Applications Conference10.1109/ATNAC.2008.4783338(288-293)Online publication date: Dec-2008
  • (2006)Wireless Mesh Network Testbed Demo2006 IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad Hoc and Sensor Sysetems10.1109/MOBHOC.2006.278615(582-585)Online publication date: Oct-2006

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