Summary: Mobile Netw Appl (2008) 13:132­146
DOI 10.1007/s11036-008-0026-8
A Multi-radio 802.11 Mesh Network Architecture
Krishna Ramachandran · Irfan Sheriff ·
Elizabeth M. Belding · Kevin C. Almeroth
Published online: 19 March 2008
© Springer Science + Business Media, LLC 2008
Abstract The focus of this paper is to offer a practical
multi-radio mesh network architecture that can realize
the benefits of multiple radios. Our architecture pro-
vides solutions to challenges in three key areas. The first
is the construction of a split wireless router that enables
modular wireless mesh routers to be constructed from
commodity hardware. The second is the design of a
centralized channel assignment algorithm that consid-
ers the inter-dependence between channel assignment
and routing in order to create high-throughput channel-
diversified routes. Third is the design and implemen-
tation of several communication protocols that are
necessary to make our architecture operational. Our

Source: Almeroth, Kevin C. - Department of Computer Science, University of California at Santa Barbara

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