Wireless Mesh Networking

Overview

A Complete Roadmap to Wireless Mesh Network Design Principles and Practices Using WiFi, WiMAX, and ZigBEE!

Wireless Mesh Networking provides everything needed to create in-demand wireless mesh networks that provide wireless broadband access over wide areas. This resource presents a complete roadmap to the design and operation of wireless mesh networks, covering basic principles, key standards, and all aspects of network operation-from antenna technologies to software to energy management.

This skills-building tool is packed with 100 detailed illustrations. Wireless Mesh Networking features:

• Expert guidance on integrating WiFi, WiMAX, and ZigBEE into seamless wireless networks
• The latest methods for ensuring security across the wireless network
• In-depth coverage of data fusion principles
• Vital information on SmartMesh networking in SensorNets
• Autonomic selfware and bio-inspired communication artifacts

Inside This One-Stop Guide to Wireless Mesh Networks

• Wireless mesh communications paradigms • Wireless mesh network theory and models • Wireless mesh architectures and protocols • Wireless mesh network standards (WiFi, WiMAX, ZigBEE) • Use of advanced antenna technologies • Mechanisms for secure communications • Software and middleware • Wireless sensor networking • Foundations of data fusion, gathering, and processing • Energy management • Autonomic selfware communications • Selfware networking

Table of contents

Preface
Glossary
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. Wireless Mesh Communication Architectures and Protocols
Chapter 3. Energy-Aware WM(2)Net Communications
Chapter 4. Principles of Communications Coverage in WM(2)Nets
Chapter 5. Medium Access Control Principles in WM(2)Nets
Chapter 6. Capacity Principles in WM(2)Nets
Chapter 7. Security Issues in WM(2)Nets
Chapter 8. Autonomic Selfware WM(2)Net Communications
References
Index

Biographical note

George Aggelou, Prof. Dr., is currently a staff member of the Greek Ministry of Transport and Communications, Headquarters-General Directorate of Air Navigation, Electronics Division-Telecommunication FacilitiesSection. For 5 years, he was Assistant Professor of Electronic and Electrical Engineering at the Institute of Technology in Greece, and the Director of G-Alpha Telecomms, a company that builds next-generation wireless networks for enterprises and industry. Prof. Aggelou is also the co-founder of Mobile E-Commerce Technologies, Ltd., in London. He has been involved in the standardization of wireless networking for many years, first as a researcher at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center in New York, and then as a team leader at Cisco Systems in London. He is also the author of the book Mobile Ad Hoc Networks: From Wireless LANs to 4G Networks, published by McGraw-Hill in 2004. Prof. Aggelou was the recipient of the London-based RACAL Prize for Research Excellence in 2000.