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Experiences and investigations with Heraklion MESH: an experimental metropolitan multi-radio mesh network

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Manolis Delakis,

Kostas Mathioudakis,

Nikolaos Petroulakis,

Vasilios A. SirisAuthors Info & Claims

TridentCom '08: Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Testbeds and research infrastructures for the development of networks & communities

Article No.: 31, Pages 1 - 6

Published: 18 March 2008 Publication History

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We present our experiences and investigations with an experimental metropolitan multi-radio mesh network that covers an area of approximately 60 Km² in the city of Heraklion, Crete. The network consists of 14 nodes, among which six are core nodes with up to four 802.11a wireless interfaces each, and an additional wireless interface for management and monitoring. The distance between core mesh nodes varies from 1.6 to 5 Km, and the wireless mesh network contains two gateways that connect it to a fixed network. Our investigations have considered the online monitoring of the links between core nodes, the interference between the wireless interfaces located in the same mesh node, channel assignment procedures, and the use of the metropolitan mesh network for real-time collection of electromagnetic field (EMF) measurements.

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Experiences and investigations with Heraklion MESH: an experimental metropolitan multi-radio mesh network
1. Networks
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    1. Mobile networks
    2. Wireless access networks

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TridentCom '08: Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Testbeds and research infrastructures for the development of networks & communities

March 2008

335 pages

ISBN:9789639799240

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Miguel Ponce de Leon
Waterford Institute of Technology, Ireland

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ICST (Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering)

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Ancillotti EBruno RConti MBononi LLassous I(2008)Experimentation and performance evaluation of rate adaptation algorithms in wireless mesh networksProceedings of the 5th ACM symposium on Performance evaluation of wireless ad hoc, sensor, and ubiquitous networks10.1145/1454609.1454612(7-14)Online publication date: 27-Oct-2008
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