TY - GEN
T1 - Design and evaluation of iMesh
T2 - 6th IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless Mobile and Multimedia Networks, WoWMoM 2005
AU - Navda, Vishnu
AU - Kashyap, Anand
AU - Das, Samir R.
PY - 2005
Y1 - 2005
N2 - We design and evaluated iMesh, an infrastructure-mode 802.11-based mesh network. IEEE 802.11 access points double as routers making the network architecture completely transparent to mobile clients, who view the network as a conventional wireless LAN. Layer-2 handoffs between access points trigger routing activities inside the network, which can be thought of as layer-3 handoffs. We describe the design rationale and a testbed implementation of iMesh. We present results related to the handoff performance. The results demonstrate excellent handoff performance, the overall latency varying between 50-100 ms, depending on different layer-2 techniques, even when a five-hop long route update is needed. Various performance measurements also demonstrate the clear superiority of a flat routing scheme relative to a more traditional, Mobile IP-like scheme to handle layer-3 handoff.
AB - We design and evaluated iMesh, an infrastructure-mode 802.11-based mesh network. IEEE 802.11 access points double as routers making the network architecture completely transparent to mobile clients, who view the network as a conventional wireless LAN. Layer-2 handoffs between access points trigger routing activities inside the network, which can be thought of as layer-3 handoffs. We describe the design rationale and a testbed implementation of iMesh. We present results related to the handoff performance. The results demonstrate excellent handoff performance, the overall latency varying between 50-100 ms, depending on different layer-2 techniques, even when a five-hop long route update is needed. Various performance measurements also demonstrate the clear superiority of a flat routing scheme relative to a more traditional, Mobile IP-like scheme to handle layer-3 handoff.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/70349094971
U2 - 10.1109/WOWMOM.2005.35
DO - 10.1109/WOWMOM.2005.35
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:70349094971
SN - 0769523420
SN - 9780769523422
T3 - Proceedings - 6th IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless Mobile and Multimedia Networks, WoWMoM 2005
SP - 164
EP - 170
BT - Proceedings - 6th IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless Mobile and Multimedia Networks, WoWMoM 2005
Y2 - 13 June 2005 through 16 June 2005
ER -