Opportunistic Networks: Challenges in Specializing the P2P Paradigm
DEXA '06 Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications
Relay-based deployment concepts for wireless and mobile broadband radio
IEEE Communications Magazine
Mesh networks: commodity multihop ad hoc networks
IEEE Communications Magazine
A survey on wireless mesh networks
IEEE Communications Magazine
OverMesh: network-centric computing [Accepted from Open Call]
IEEE Communications Magazine
Coordinated opportunistic routing protocol for wireless mesh networks
Computers and Electrical Engineering
An Efficient and Fair Strategy for Radio Resources Allocation in Multi-radio Wireless Mesh Networks
Wireless Personal Communications: An International Journal
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In the traditional model for wireless mesh networks, a two-tiered architecture classifies nodes into mesh routers or clients. Such an approach, based on strong separation of roles, is interesting when an administrative entity deploys and controls the network. Nevertheless, in spontaneous and self-organized networks, where there is no administrative entity behind the network formation, this model does not hold anymore. In such a scenario the heterogeneity of nodes should be fully exploited in order to increase, as much as possible, network availability and usability. In this article we propose an approach for opportunistic wireless mesh network formation and maintenance that breaks the rigidness of the traditional architecture. We relax the role separation constraint and consider the case of spontaneous network formation relying on the concept of self-organization and collaboration. The main idea is to make the network take advantage of the specific resources and characteristics of the nodes in an opportunistic fashion. In our vision, any node (routers and clients) can perform any network functionality, if they can and if they wish.