Trends, advances, and challenges in testbed-based wireless mesh network research

Mobile Networks and Applications

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 315-329

  Blywis, Bastian ^a   Guenes, Mesut ^a   Juraschek, Felix ^a   Schiller, Jochen H ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Experimentation; Research method; Survey; Testbed; Wireless mesh network

Indexed keywords

COMMERCIAL APPLICATIONS; CURRENT TRENDS; DISTRIBUTED EMBEDDED SYSTEM; EXPERIMENTATION; RESEARCH METHOD; RESEARCH METHODS; RESEARCH TOPICS; SIMULATION-BASED; THIRD GENERATION; THREE GENERATIONS;

EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; EXPERIMENTS; SURVEYS; TEST FACILITIES; TESTBEDS; WIRELESS MESH NETWORKS (WMN);

MESH NETWORKING;

EID: 77952422861     PISSN: 1383469X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11036-010-0227-9     Document Type: Article

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