Design and Evaluation of iMesh: An Infrastructure-Mode Wireless Mesh Network

Authors:
Vishnu Navda;Anand Kashyap;Samir R. Das
Affiliations:
State University of New York at Stony Brook;State University of New York at Stony Brook;State University of New York at Stony Brook
Venue:
WOWMOM '05 Proceedings of the Sixth IEEE International Symposium on World of Wireless Mobile and Multimedia Networks
Year:
2005

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Abstract

We design and evaluate iMesh, an infrastructure-mode 802.11-based mesh network. Here, 802.11 access points double as routers making the network architecture completely transparent to mobile clients, who view the network as a conventional wireless LAN. Layer-2 handoffs between access points trigger routing activities inside the network, which can be thought of as layer-3 handoffs. We describe the design rationale, and a testbed implementation of iMesh. We present results related to the handoff performance. The results demonstrate excellent handoff performance, the overall latency varying between 50-100ms depending on different layer-2 techniques, even when a five-hop long route update is needed. Various performance measurements also demonstrate the clear superiority of a flat routing scheme relative to a more traditional, mobile IP-like scheme to handle layer-3 handoff.