Wireless mesh networks: a survey
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
Optimization models for the radio planning of wireless mesh networks
NETWORKING'07 Proceedings of the 6th international IFIP-TC6 conference on Ad Hoc and sensor networks, wireless networks, next generation internet
Wireless Mesh Networks: Current Challenges and Future Directions of Web-In-The-Sky
IEEE Wireless Communications
DMesh: Incorporating Practical Directional Antennas in Multichannel Wireless Mesh Networks
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
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Wireless mesh networks are a profitable application of ad-hoc networks for their low installation cost and high performance properties. Here, we are concerned with the problem of how the mesh nodes should be placed in a given service area to satisfy some network constraints. We investigate this problem by means of genetic algorithms, which are used in order to find optimal topologies of a mesh network. The resulting algorithm has been called as GAMesh, and it is a numerical framework where the design constraints of the network, such as the connectivity and the traffic constraints, can be easily written by means of a scalar fitness function. We cast the problem in an innovative graph drawing technique, which furnishes good solutions in a reasonable computational time. Differently from other solutions, GAMesh explores all the points in the discretized plane. We show GAMesh in the context of infrastructure based wireless mesh networks, typically used by wireless internet service providers, which must minimize cost and maximize the performance.