D. Soumya

M. Tech  Student

Title: Wireless Mesh Networks

Supervisor(s): Prof. U. B. Desai

Abstract:

         Wireless mesh networks (WMNs) consist of mesh routers and mesh clients, where mesh routers have minimal mobility and form the backbone of WMNs. The integration of WMNs with other networks such as the Internet, cellular, IEEE 802.11, IEEE 802.16, sensor networks, etc., can be accomplished through the gateway and bridging functions in the mesh routers. WMNs are anticipated to resolve the limitations and to significantly improve the performance of ad hoc networks, wireless local area networks (WLANs), wireless personal area networks (WPANs), and wireless metropolitan area networks (WMANs). Despite recent advances in wireless mesh networking, many research challenges remain in all protocol layers. There are many open research issues in the deployment of Mesh Networks that need to be resolved such as Scalability, Security, Network Interoperability etc.  The project deals with re-designing the routing protocols in such a manner as to overcome the Scalability and Security issues in WMNs.

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