CS 68191 Masters Seminar / CS 89191 Doctoral Seminar
Spring 2008


Wireless Mesh Network: Survey on Opportunities and Challenges

Mike Yuan
(Doctoral Student Presentation)



Wireless mesh networks are a special case of mobile ad-hoc networks where the nodes have relatively fixed positions and communicate to the Internet through one or more gateways. This paper gives an introduction to WMNs and presents both the benefits enabled by this technology and the main hurdles that have to be overcome, particularly fault tolerance, load balancing, fairness and support for QoS.