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- On the Design and Implementation of Infrastructure Mesh Networks
- Wireless mesh networking is an exciting new technology that has applications in defence, metro-area Internet access, and transient networks (e.g: disaster recovery, conventions). This paper describes the design and implementation of a self-configuring, secure infrastructure mesh network architecture, called MeshCluster, composed using multi-radio network nodes. A subset of radio interfaces...
- Tags: Network, Wireless Mesh Networking, Mesh Networking, Networking
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- Nortel Networks Case Study: University of Arkansas
- The University of Arkansas campus - located in Fayetteville, nestled in the Ozark Mountains of northwest Arkansas - presented some physical challenges. The university got a lot of trees on their campus and the terrain is fairly hilly. So they had some issues with getting hardwired connections to all of...
- Tags: Nortel Networks Corp., Arkansas, Mesh Networking, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Networking
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- High-Throughput Multicast Routing Metrics in Wireless Mesh Networks
- The stationary nature of nodes in a mesh network has shifted the main design goal of routing protocols from maintaining connectivity between source and destination nodes to finding high-throughput paths between them. Lately, numerous link-quality based routing metrics have been proposed for choosing high-throughput paths for unicast protocols. This paper...
- Tags: Purdue University, Metrics, Network, Wireless, Mesh Networking, Networking
- White papers
- Mitigating the Gateway Bottleneck Via Transparent Cooperative Caching in Wireless Mesh Networks
- Wireless Mesh Networks (WMNs) have been proposed to provide cheap, easily deployable and robust Internet access. The dominant Internet-access traffic from clients causes a congestion bottleneck around the gateway, which can significantly limit the throughput of the WMN clients in accessing the Internet. This paper presents MeshCache, a transparent caching...
- Tags: Gateway Inc., Network, MeshCache, Mesh Networking, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Networking
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- New Hotspot Catches on Fast With Firetide Instant Mesh Networks
- Home to the film industry's leading post-production studios, Culver City has undergone extensive redevelopment in the past several years. The city wanted to deploy a hotspot downtown to encourage foot traffic and provide convenient Internet access for shoppers, business workers, and visitors. Using a Firetide Instant Mesh Network, the Culver...
- Tags: Internet Access, HotSpot, Network, Downtown, Wireless, Mesh Networking, Networking
- Case studies
- Nortel Networks Case Study: NASA Kennedy Space Station's Joint Industry Press Center (JIPC)
- The Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, Florida, wanted to provide wireless mobility, connectivity and accessibility to journalists from around the world reporting the most recent space shuttle launch from the Kennedy Space Center. A Nortel mobility solution based on Wireless Mesh Networking, allowing journalists to use their laptops and...
- Tags: NASA, Nortel Networks Corp., Mobility, Mesh Networking, Wireless, Wi-Fi, Networking
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- Marshalltown Encourages Economic Development by Launching the First WiFi City Network in the State of Iowa
- Located on the Iowa River, Marshalltown is centrally located in the US, and within a short five hours of three major metropolitan areas. Marshalltown realized that it needed to differentiate itself to both attract new investment and migration to the city as well as to retain the businesses and residents...
- Tags: Network, Nortel Networks Corp., Broadband, Marshalltown, Wireless LANs, Mesh Networking, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Broadband Internet, Network Technology, Telecommunications, Networking
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- Corpus Christi, TX Pioneers Metro-Wide Wi-Fi Mesh Net
- Corpus Christi, Texas, rated one of the nation's top ten digital savvy cities in a Center for Digital Government poll, is innovating its technology infrastructure to boost workforce effectiveness and better serve its citizens. The city deployed one of the nation's first carrier-class citywide Wi-Fi mesh networks. It is powered...
- Tags: Network, Pronto Networks, Mesh Networking, Workforce Management, Recruitment & Selection, Networking, Human Resources
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- WLANs as Business Application Tools
- With the rapid spread of WiFi into corporate life, wireless LAN networks that support a mix of applications are becoming more prevalent. Such multiservice networks have unique issues, such as ensuring proper security, bandwidth, and mobility for both public and private purposes. Meanwhile, new apps like voice-over-WLAN are changing the...
- Tags: Network, Business Application, WLAN, Tool, Wireless LANs, LANs, Mesh Networking, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Networking
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- An Inter-Domain Routing Protocol for Multi-Homed Wireless Mesh Networks
- This paper presents a routing protocol for multi-homed wireless mesh networks that provide uninterrupted connectivity and fast handoff. The authors approach integrates wireless and wired connectivity, using multicast groups to coordinate decisions and seamlessly transfer connections between several Internet gateways as mobile clients move between access points. The protocol optimizes...
- Tags: Handoff, Protocol, Johns Hopkins University, Wi-Fi, Mesh Networking, Wireless, Networking
- White papers
- Real-Time Embedded Computers Help Maximize Gym Workouts
- As a leading provider of exercise equipment, Life Fitness wanted to develop a next generation electronic "Brain" that could receive personalized workout settings, monitor user performance, provide real-time coaching, and enable a higher level of interaction. Technical requirements included high-performance graphics for video and animations, a familiar development environment for...
- Tags: Computer, Mesh Networking, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Networking
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- Mesh Networks: A Revolution in Wireless Connectivity
- Here's a brief but informative white paper from Motorola that explains why wireless mesh networking makes any radio system perform better. The paper describes the military origins of mesh networks and explains why city governments are quickly adopting the technology to assist their police and other first responders. Find out...
- Tags: Network, Motorola Inc., Wireless, Mesh Networking, Networking
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- Centralized Channel Assignment and Routing Algorithms for Multi-Channel Wireless Mesh Networks
- The IEEE 802.11 Wireless LAN standards allow multiple non-overlapping frequency channels to be used simultaneously to increase the aggregate bandwidth available to end-users. Such bandwidth aggregation capability is routinely used in infrastructure mode operation, where the traffic to and from wireless nodes is distributed among multiple interfaces of an access...
- Tags: Algorithm, IEEE 802.11, Mesh Networking, Network, Association For Computing Machinery, Wireless LANs, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Networking
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- Joint Channel Assignment and Routing for Throughput Optimization in Multi-Radio Wireless Mesh Networks
- Infrastructure Wireless Mesh Networks (IWMNs) are increasingly been deployed for commercial use and law enforcement. These deployment settings place stringent requirements on the performance of the underlying IWMNs. Bandwidth guarantee is one of the most important requirements of applications in these settings. For these IWMNs, topology change is infrequent and...
- Tags: Lucent Technologies Inc., Bandwidth, Optimization, Goal, Alcatel, Mesh Networking, Networking
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- Minimum-Interference Channel Assignment in Multi-Radio Wireless Mesh Networks
- Mesh networks based on commodity 802.11 hardware are becoming more common and commercially deployed due to the popularity of the 802.11 standard and ubiquity of 802.11-based interfaces in mobile devices. This paper considers static multi-hop wireless mesh networks, where each router node is equipped with multiple radio interfaces and multiple...
- Tags: IEEE 802.11, Network, Mesh Networking, Wireless LANs, Wi-Fi, Networking, Wireless
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- Characterizing Achievable Rates in Multi-Hop Wireless Mesh Networks With Orthogonal Channels
- This paper considers the problem of determining the achievable rates in multi-hop wireless mesh networks with orthogonal channels. The authors classify wireless networks with orthogonal channels into two types, half duplex and full duplex, and consider the problem of jointly routing the flows and scheduling transmissions to achieve a given...
- Tags: Lucent Technologies Inc., Problem, Alcatel, Mesh Networking, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Networking
- White papers
- AscenVision Success of AscenLink in Singapore National Day Parade
- Singapore National Day Parade (NDP) is a yearly extravaganza with more than 5, 000 participants, 65,000 spectators and 6 months of organization. In 2006, the 41st birthday of Singapore, the organizers faced new challenges of increased security issues from the recent concerns on terrorist threats and the 33 year-old National...
- Tags: Multimedia, WLAN, Singapore, Singapore National Day Parade, Wireless LANs, LANs, Mesh Networking, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Networking
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- Architecture and Evaluation of the MIT Roofnet Mesh Network
- This paper describes the design and performance of Roofnet, an 802.11b mesh network for Internet access. Its principle design goal is to allow unmanaged deployment and operation, to better support the growth of community networks with open access policies. This goal has influenced many levels of the design, from the...
- Tags: Performance, Network, Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, Allocation, Mesh Networking, Performance Management, Networking, Human Resources, Workforce Management
- White papers
- SrcRR: A High Throughput Routing Protocol for 802.11 Mesh Networks
- This paper addresses a set of serious performance problems observed on the CityMesh 50-node 802.11b urban rooftop network that existing routing protocols do not consider. The original CityMesh routing protocol, based on DSR and ETX, delivered median TCP throughput of 20 kilobytes per second, despite the use of radios that...
- Tags: IEEE 802.11, Mesh Networking, Network, Routing Protocol, SrcRR, Tcp/Ip, Networking
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- SkyPilot Networks Chooses Fujitsu System-on-Chip for New Generation WiMAX mesh networking Solution
- SkyPilot selected the Fujitsu WiMAX System-on-Chip (SoC) for a new generation of systems that will bring sophisticated mesh networking to WiMAX deployments. As the first company to announce plans to add mesh networking to WiMAX infrastructures, SkyPilot will provide multi-hop, multi-link, multi-path, and multi-base station connectivity that offers a breadth...
- Tags: Network, Fujitsu Ltd., SkyPilot Networks, Mesh Networking, WiMAX, Wireless, Wi-Fi, Telecommunications, Networking
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