DESIGN OF NODE LOCATIONS FOR INDOOR WIRELESS MESH NETWORKS
Keywords:
Delay, throughput, wireless mesh networksAbstract
In the literature, the performance of a Wireless Mesh Network (WMN) has been analyzed byassuming the same quality on each hop. However, this assumption is hardly true in practice due tothe physical obstructions in the wireless link, especially for an indoor environment. Therefore, thisstudy revisits the analysis of a WMN performance by taking the effect of physical obstructions intoaccount instead of assuming an equally deterministic property for each hop. These obstructionscause the degradation of signal strength which relatively decrease the success rate of transmissionbetween each hop. This study examines these physical concerns through measured results in anindoor environment and then a design of node locations is discussed.
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