ABSTRACT
Wireless mobile mesh networks are made up by several mobile nodes, fully wirelessly interconnected, which adopt multi-hop communication for data transmission. Mesh clients are generally equipped with a radio interface supporting mesh networking functions; that is why they can act as routers for other mesh nodes. Mesh networks are gaining a growing interest thanks to their special characteristics that enable the deployment of new applications at lower cost. Wireless mesh networks are characterized by multi-hop communications and rely on a wireless backhauling system to access other external networks such as the Internet. Multi-hop networks generally adopt distributed control and resource allocation protocols. Mesh wireless mesh networks (WMNs) intend to provide ubiquitous mobile broadband wireless access in a cellular architecture while supporting mesh networking in indoor and outdoor scenarios. WMNs physical layer should be revised to provide important rates and wide coverage while enhancing reliability by solving the fading, multipath, and interference constraints.
