Rapidly-deployable mesh network testbed

Authors:
Michael R. Souryal;Andreas Wapf;Nader Moayeri
Affiliations:
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland;National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland;National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland
Venue:
GLOBECOM'09 Proceedings of the 28th IEEE conference on Global telecommunications
Year:
2009

Citing 6
Cited 1

Assessing Voice Quality in Packet-Based Telephony

IEEE Internet Computing
A high-throughput path metric for multi-hop wireless routing

Proceedings of the 9th annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking
Link-level measurements from an 802.11b mesh network

Proceedings of the 2004 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communications
Real-time deployment of multihop relays for range extension

Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Mobile systems, applications and services
Unmanned ground vehicle radio relay deployment system for non-line-of-sight operations

RA '07 Proceedings of the 13th IASTED International Conference on Robotics and Applications
Measuring indoor mobile wireless link quality

ICC'09 Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE international conference on Communications

Fast and reliable robot deployment for substitution networks

Proceedings of the 10th ACM symposium on Performance evaluation of wireless ad hoc, sensor, & ubiquitous networks

Quantified Score

Hi-index	0.00

Visualization

Abstract

This paper describes a wireless mesh network testbed for research in rapid deployment and autoconfiguration of mesh nodes. Motivated by the needs of first responders and military personnel arriving to an incident area, we developed and tested an automated deployment algorithm that indicates when a mesh node needs to be deployed as the coverage area grows. Conventional radios can experience severe coverage limitations inside structures such as hi-rise buildings, subterranean buildings, caves, and underground mines. The approach examined here is to deploy wireless relays that extend coverage through multihop communication using a deployment algorithm that employs physical layer measurements. A flexible platform based on IEEE 802.11 radios has been implemented and tested in a subterranean laboratory complex where conventional public safety radios have no coverage. Applications tested include two-way voice, data, and location information. This paper describes the testbed, presents experimental results, and recommends areas for further study and development in rapidly-deployable multihop networks.