An Optimization Technique for Wireless Communication based on Mesh Topology

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are usually deployed in several specific places to observe or monitor various environmental situations. Sensors have ability to sense, transmit and retransmit (reply) their data to other neighbor nodes through the network or to the base station either directly or through multi-hop. The development of WSN applications was directed to support different activities. Limitations on their sizes, control and costs add many constraints on the network performance such as transmission range, sensing range, coverage area, lifetime, computation and memory. The sensor networks can be used and linked together depending on the mesh topology. This network is called Wireless Mesh Network (WMN). Wireless Mesh (WM) consist of mesh routers, mesh clients, and gateways. The focus in this article is how to evaluate and improve the performance of the WMN by increasing its throughput. In this article a regression model is utilized as a mathematical tool to predict and expect the number of the possible links and their lengths in each suggested network topology. Shortest paths are also estimated and evaluated for different networks.