A taxonomy and evaluation for developing 802.11-based wireless mesh network testbeds

International Journal of Communication Systems

Volumn 25, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 963-990

  Uludag, Suleyman ^a   Imboden, Tom ^b   Akkaya, Kemal ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN FLINT   (United States)

^b SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Southern Illinois University Carbondale   (United States)

Author keywords

testbeds; wireless mesh networks

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMIC NETWORKING; IEEE 802.11N; IEEE 802.11S; IEEE 802.16; PROTOCOL STACK; RESEARCH ISSUES; TV WHITE SPACES; WIRELESS MESH;

EXPERIMENTS; STANDARDS; TAXONOMIES; TESTBEDS; WIRELESS MESH NETWORKS (WMN);

MESH NETWORKING;

EID: 84864441901     PISSN: 10745351     EISSN: 10991131     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dac.1299     Document Type: Article

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