ABSTRACT
This chapter aims to design a realistic form of a wireless mesh networks (WMNs) that is functional, scalable, and low-cost as a municipality area network. In the simulation environment, there is 100% coverage of the service area using 802.11g interfaces and 5 mW transmit power. The physical layer service data unit consists of the applications’ data bits and the lower layers’ encapsulation. Dynamic routing protocols are running in all wireless and wired interfaces of the mesh routers and gateways to form a single IP routing table. Simulation is the process of designing a model of a real system and conducting experiments with this model for the purpose of understanding the behavior of the system and evaluating various strategies for the operation of the system. The simulation results for the proposed hierarchical architecture show that it can enhance the performance and the scalability of WMNs.
