IEEE 802.11-BASED WIRELESS MESH NETWORKS

Abstract

IEEE 802.11 has become the de facto standard for home and enterprise deployment of wireless local area networks (LANs). Most of these deployments operate in the infrastructure mode, where a set of access points (APs) serve as communication hubs for mobile stations and provide entry points to the Internet. The current role of IEEE 802.11 is limited to mobile client to AP communication. Economies of scale make IEEE 802.11 a desirable alternative even to interconnect these APs by forming a wireless mesh network (WMN) as shown in Figure 3.1.