The wireless mesh networks came to rescue the challenging issues related for predicting the location of a user and choosing the position of access points in wireless distributed systems. Basically mesh networks guarantee the connectivity through a multihop wireless backbone formed by stationary routers. There is no differentiation between uplink and downlink, but performance depends on the routing protocols. There are several challenging issues for properly exploiting wireless mesh networks` features, such as fast-link quality variation, channel assignments, performance, QoS-routing, scalability, slow/high speed mobile users, service differentiation, and others.
Tracks: - Architectures and algorithms
- Frameworks
- Wireless interference models
- Topology models
- Large-scale networks
- Real-time and non-real-time communications
- Channel assignment schemes
- Resource allocation
- Centralized and distributed scheduling
- Performance
- Static/mobile scenarios
- Access control
- Service differentiation
- Security, Privacy, and Trust
- Protocols
- Protocol interference models
- Access and routing protocols
- Single-channel multihop / multi-channel routing
- Joint routing and scheduling
- Routing metrics
- Multichannel routing
- Quality of Services routing
- Multimedia-centric routing
- Fast-link quality metrics
- Bandwidth estimation
- Cross-layer multicast routing
- QoS-based access protocols for mesh networks
- Multi-channel access protocols
- Applications
- Multimedia services
- Home IPTV
- WiMax
- Broadband home networking communications
- Emergency/disaster
- Telemedicine and e-health
- Smart buildings
- Broadband Internet access
