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Planning with Joint Clustering in Multi-hop Wireless Mesh and Sensor Networks

Authors:
Yasir Drabu
Hassan Peyravi

Keywords: wireless mesh network; clustering; wireless deployment; gateway placement

Abstract:
Wide spread deployment of wireless mesh networks for broadband access requires careful deployment and planning in terms of laying down the network infrastructure. Deploying such networks comes with some major inter-related issues including capacity planning, scalability and access reliability. Planning includes determining the number of gateways, optimal placement of gateways and relay nodes, maximizing coverage while minimizing the operational cost. This paper focuses on a planning approach that aims at increasing access fairness and fault tolerance using an overlapping clustering technique. It provides alternate paths for nodes residing at the edge of the clusters and mitigates upstream blocking towards the gateways to control delay, congestion and loss rate.

Pages: 309 to 316

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2011

Publication date: January 23, 2011

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4413

ISBN: 978-1-61208-113-7

Location: St. Maarten, The Netherlands Antilles

Dates: from January 23, 2011 to January 28, 2011