Highly dynamic Destination-Sequenced Distance-Vector routing (DSDV) for mobile computers
SIGCOMM '94 Proceedings of the conference on Communications architectures, protocols and applications
Wireless mesh networks: a survey
Computer Networks and ISDN Systems
MRS: a simple cross-layer heuristic to improve throughput capacity in wireless mesh networks
CoNEXT '05 Proceedings of the 2005 ACM conference on Emerging network experiment and technology
Reducing interference in ad hoc networks through topology control
DIALM-POMC '05 Proceedings of the 2005 joint workshop on Foundations of mobile computing
MRS: a simple cross-layer heuristic to improve throughput capacity in wireless mesh networks
CoNEXT '05 Proceedings of the 2005 ACM conference on Emerging network experiment and technology
The meshDVNet wireless mesh network test-bed
WiNTECH '06 Proceedings of the 1st international workshop on Wireless network testbeds, experimental evaluation & characterization
Interference-aware routing for multi-hop Wireless Mesh Networks
Computer Communications
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Efficient routing in wireless mesh networks is a fundamental issue to be addressed in order to boost real deployments bywireless Internet Service Providers (ISP). In last years, research has shown, mainly by simulation, that a cross-layerdesign can significantly improve network performance. Nevertheless, despite the multitude of solutions proposed, fewhave known a real implementation. In this paper, we propose some measurements, performed on a real Wireless MeshNetwork (WMN), clearly showing the importance of a cross-layer approach in order to improve the performances of the mesh backbone. The platform is composed of MeshDVboxes our custom Wireless Mesh Router (WMR), built up from off-the-shelf hardware and open source software. As a routing protocol we use two versions (with and without cross-layermetrics) of MeshDV, a simple routing protocol expressly de-signed for WMNs. Our tests show that in cases where traditional hop-count metric compromises network connectivity, cross-layer routing is able to maintain it and has still good performances.