Link-level measurements from an 802.11b mesh network
Proceedings of the 2004 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communications
IEEE 802.11 rate adaptation: a practical approach
MSWiM '04 Proceedings of the 7th ACM international symposium on Modeling, analysis and simulation of wireless and mobile systems
Routing in multi-radio, multi-hop wireless mesh networks
Proceedings of the 10th annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking
Design and Evaluation of iMesh: An Infrastructure-Mode Wireless Mesh Network
WOWMOM '05 Proceedings of the Sixth IEEE International Symposium on World of Wireless Mobile and Multimedia Networks
Measurement driven deployment of a two-tier urban mesh access network
Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Mobile systems, applications and services
Jigsaw: solving the puzzle of enterprise 802.11 analysis
Proceedings of the 2006 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communications
On accurate measurement of link quality in multi-hop wireless mesh networks
Proceedings of the 12th annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking
Antenna Theory: Analysis and Design
Antenna Theory: Analysis and Design
Estimation of link interference in static multi-hop wireless networks
IMC '05 Proceedings of the 5th ACM SIGCOMM conference on Internet Measurement
A wireless mesh network testbed in rural mountain areas
Proceedings of the second ACM international workshop on Wireless network testbeds, experimental evaluation and characterization
MDG: measurement-driven guidelines for 802.11 WLAN design
Proceedings of the 13th annual ACM international conference on Mobile computing and networking
FRACTEL: a fresh perspective on (rural) mesh networks
Proceedings of the 2007 workshop on Networked systems for developing regions
Validation of a miniaturized wireless network testbed
Proceedings of the third ACM international workshop on Wireless network testbeds, experimental evaluation and characterization
On the feasibility of the link abstraction in wireless mesh networks
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
Elucidating the instability of random access wireless Mesh networks
SECON'09 Proceedings of the 6th Annual IEEE communications society conference on Sensor, Mesh and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks
A measurement study of bandwidth estimation in IEEE 802.11g wireless LANs using the DCF
NETWORKING'08 Proceedings of the 7th international IFIP-TC6 networking conference on AdHoc and sensor networks, wireless networks, next generation internet
Parallel use of multiple channels in multi-hop 802.11 wireless networks
MILCOM'06 Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE conference on Military communications
Experiences from the design, deployment, and usage of the UCSB MeshNet testbed
IEEE Wireless Communications
Experiences in using WiFi for rural internet in India
IEEE Communications Magazine
HomeMesh: a low-cost indoor wireless mesh for home networking
IEEE Communications Magazine
Applications and challenges of the 802.11e EDCA mechanism: an experimental study
IEEE Network: The Magazine of Global Internetworking
Towards benchmarking routing protocols in wireless mesh networks
Ad Hoc Networks
Throughput and energy-aware routing for 802.11 based mesh networks
Computer Communications
A case for evaluating backpressure routing using Ns-3 emulation in a WiFi mesh testbed
Proceedings of the seventh ACM international workshop on Wireless network testbeds, experimental evaluation and characterization
Control theoretic optimization of 802.11 WLANs: Implementation and experimental evaluation
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
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A lot of attention has been given to multihop wireless networks lately, but further research--in particular, through experimentation--is needed. This attention has motivated an increase in the number of 802.11-based deployments, both indoor and outdoor. These testbeds, which require a significant amount of resources during both deployment and maintenance, are used to run measurements in order to analyze and understand the limitation and differences between analytical or simulation-based figures and the results from real-life experimentation. This paper makes two major contributions: (i) first, we describe a novel wireless multihop testbed, which we name FloorNet, that is deployed and operated under the false floor of a lab in our Computer Science building. This false floor provides a strong physical protection that prevents disconnections or misplacements, as well as radio shielding (to some extent) thanks to the false floor panels--this later feature is assessed through experimentation; (ii) second, by running exhaustive and controlled experiments we are able to analyze the performance limits of commercial off-the-shelf hardware, as well as to derive practical design criteria for the deployment and configuration of mesh networks. These results both provide valuable insights of wireless multihop performance and prove that FloorNet constitutes a valuable asset to research on wireless mesh networks.